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• 600BC The Diolkos
  Diolkos
  
  The Diolkos—from the Greek dia and holkos —was a paved trackway in Ancient Greece which enabled boats to be moved overland across the Isthmus of Corinth....
   an early Greek inclined plane was in use.
• 385AD Inclined planes were in use on the Grand Canal
  Grand Canal of China
  
  The Grand Canal of China , also known as the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal is the longest ancient canal or artificial river in the world....
   in China
  China
  
  China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
  .
• 1167 Nieuwedamme overtoom (a simple type of incline) was built at Ypres
  Ypres
  
  Ypres , Ieper , or Ypern is a Belgium Municipalities in Belgium located in the Flemish Region Provinces of Belgium of West Flanders....
  .
• 1568 Wagon of Zafosina in use near Venice
  Venice
  
  Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
  .
• 1773 John Edyvean
  John Edyvean
  
  John Edyveanwas a Cornish people engineer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for Canal locks on the canal system....
   proposes the use of inclined planes on the St. Columb Canal
  St. Columb Canal
  
  St. Columb Canal sometimes referred to as Edyvean's Canal, was first proposed by the Cornish engineer, John Edyvean in 1773. His idea was to run a canal from Mawgan Porth through parishes inland and to return to Newquay....
   in Cornwall, UK.
• 1777 3 inclined planes begin operation on the Tyrone Canal
  Dukart's Canal
  
  Dukart's Canal was built to provide transport for coal from the Drumglass Colleries to the Coalisland Canal, in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland....
  , County Tyrone
  County Tyrone
  
  County Tyrone is the second largest of the nine Irish county of Ulster and the largest of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It has an area of 3,155 square kilometres ....
  , Northern Ireland
  Northern Ireland
  
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• 1788 An inclined plane is used for the first time in England to raise canal boats, on England's Ketley Canal
  Ketley Canal
  
  The Ketley Canal was a tub boat canal that ran about 1.5 miles from Oakengates to Ketley works in Shropshire, England. The canal was built about 1788 and featured the first Canal inclined plane in Britain....
  .
• 1792 William Reynolds
  William Reynolds
  
  William Reynolds may refer to:*William Reynolds , or Reginaldus, English Catholic biblical translator and scholar*William Reynolds , Scottish Victoria Cross recipient...
   of Ketley
  Ketley
  
  Ketley is a suburb of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England. East Ketley is currently being re-developed as part of the Telford Millennium Community, part of the Millennium Communities Programme....
   Ironworks constructed several inclined planes on the Shropshire
  Shropshire
  
  Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
   Canal.
• 1793 American born inventor Robert Fulton
  Robert Fulton
  
  Robert Fulton was an United States engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship....
   wrote a letter to Lord Stanhope
  Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope
  
  Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope Fellow of the Royal Society was a United Kingdom statesman and scientist. He was the father of the great traveller and Arabist Lady Hester Stanhope and brother-in-law of William Pitt the Younger....
   suggesting inclined planes instead of locks for Bude Canal
  Bude Canal
  
  The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Devon and Cornwall border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser....
   in Cornwall
  Cornwall
  
  Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
  . Lord Stanhope replied saying his idea for working the plane had already been thought of by Edmund Leach
  Edmund Leach
  
  Sir Edmund Ronald Leach was a United Kingdom Social Anthropology.He was provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1966-1979, was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972 and knighted in 1975....
  .
• 1794 Robert Fulton
  Robert Fulton
  
  Robert Fulton was an United States engineer and inventor who is widely credited with developing the first commercially successful steamboat. He also designed a new type of steam warship....
   took out a British patent (# 1988), for improvements to inclined planes including a double inclined plane system to be used to raise canal boats without locks.
• 1795 South Hadley Canal
  South Hadley Canal
  
  The South Hadley Canal was a canal along the Connecticut River in South Hadley, Massachusetts. It is said to be the earliest navigable canal in the United States, with operation commencing in 1795....
   begins operations, on the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, United States. The first North American inclined plane canal.
• 1797 Worsley Navigable Levels
  Worsley Navigable Levels
  
  The Worsley Navigable Levels are an extensive series of coal mines in Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. They were worked largely by the use of underground canals and boats called starvationers....
   underground incline started in 1795 was completed.
• 1800 Francis Henry Egerton, eighth Earl of Bridgewater (1756-1829) wrote 'The Description of the Inclined Plane at Walkden Moor. (Lancashire
  Lancashire
  
  Lancashire is a Metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of Historic counties of England in the North West England of England, bounded to the west by the Irish Sea....
  )'
• 1801 Inclined plane built on the Somersetshire Coal Canal
  Somerset Coal Canal
  
  The Somerset Coal Canal was a narrow canal in England, built around 1800 from basins at Paulton and Timsbury, Somerset via Camerton, Somerset, an aqueduct at Dunkerton, Somerset, Combe Hay, Midford and Monkton Combe to Limpley Stoke where it joined the Kennet and Avon Canal....
   
• 1801 to 1806. Two inclined planes built on the Stollen Canal at Gliwice
  Gliwice
  
  Gliwice is an industrial city in southern Poland with 200,361 inhabitants on the Klodnica River, about 20 km to the west from Katowice.Gliwice is one of the main centers of the Upper Silesian Metropolitan Union, the largest legally-recognized urban entity in Poland, with the population of the greater metropolitan area of 3,487,000....
  , Upper Silesia
  Silesia
  
  Silesia is a historical region of Central Europe located mostly in present-day Poland, with parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.Silesia is rich in mineral and natural resources, and includes several important industrial areas....
  .
• 1806 Three inclined planes built on the Canal du Creusot near Torcy
  Torcy, Seine-et-Marne
  
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  , France.
• 1825 to 1831. 23 inclines built on the Morris Canal
  Morris Canal
  
  The Morris Canal was an anthracite-carrying canal that incorporated a series of hydropower Canal inclined planes in its course across northern New Jersey in the United States....
  , USA.
• 1827 The Rolle Canal
  Rolle Canal
  
  The Rolle Canal in North Devon, England runs 6 miles from Landcross, where it joins the River Torridge, to the limekilns at Rosemoor....
   includes an inclined plane
• 1832 Mrs. Frances Trollope
  Frances Trollope
  
  Frances Trollope was an English novelist and miscellaneous writer who published as Mrs. Trollope or Mrs. Frances Trollope. Her detractors diminished her reputation by making the common name used for her the overly familiar and slightly vulgar diminutive Fanny Trollope....
  *, publishes in "Domestic Manners of the Americans
  Domestic Manners of the Americans
  
  Domestic Manners of the Americans is an 1832 travel book by Frances Trollope which follows her travels through America and her residence in Cincinnati, at the time still a frontier town....
  " her account of a visit the previous year to see one of the inclined planes of the Morris Canal
  Morris Canal
  
  The Morris Canal was an anthracite-carrying canal that incorporated a series of hydropower Canal inclined planes in its course across northern New Jersey in the United States....
  . This waterway, long, connected the Hudson
  Hudson River
  
  The Hudson River, called Muh-he-kun-ne-tuk , the Great Mohegan by the Iroquois, or as the Lenape Native Americans called it in Unami, Muhheakantuck, is a river that flows from north to south through eastern New York....
   and Delaware River
  Delaware River
  
  The Delaware River is a river on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States.The Delaware was explored by Adriaen Block as part of the New Netherlands Colony, and was named the South River to mark the southernmost reach of that colony....
  s, rising more than by means of a series of inclined planes.
• 1860 The first four inclined planes of the Elblag Canal
  Elblag Canal
  
  Elblag Canal is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 80.5 km in length, which runs southward from Druzno , to the river Drweca and lake Jeziorak....
   in Poland
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
   (then East Prussia
  East Prussia
  
  East Prussia refers to the main part of the Prussia along the southeastern Baltic Sea from the 13th century to 1945. From 1772?1829 and 1878?1945, the Province of East Prussia was a province of the Germany state of Prussia....
  ) were opened.
• 1885 Keage Incline on Lake Biwa Canal
  Lake Biwa Canal
  
  is a waterway in Japan built during the Meiji Period in order to transport water, freight and passengers from Lake Biwa to the nearby Kyoto.This waterway was also used as Japan's first hydroelectricity, which served to provide electricity for Kyoto's trams....
   in Kyoto
  Kyoto
  
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  , Japan
  Japan
  
  Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
   was built.
• 1900 Foxton Inclined Plane was built.
• 1911 Foxton Inclined Plane mothballed.
• 1921 Trench plane closes and brings to an end boat carrying inclined planes in Britain
• 1969 Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane
  Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane
  
  The Saint-Louis-Arzviller inclined plane is a part of the Marne-Rhine Canal. Located on the territory of the commune of Saint-Louis, Moselle, between the towns of Saint-Louis and Arzviller in the Departments of France of the Moselle, it enables the Marne-Rhine Canal to cross the Vosges Mountains....
   the unique of its kind in Europe was built on the Marne-Rhine Canal
  Marne-Rhine Canal
  
  The Marne-Rhine Canal is a canal in eastern France. It connects the river Marne River in Vitry-le-Fran?ois with the Rhine in Strasbourg. Combined with the canalised part of the Marne, it allows transport between Paris and eastern France....
   in France.
• 1973 Montech water slope
  Montech water slope
  
  The Montech water slope is a type of canal inclined plane built on the Canal de Garonne, in the commune of Montech, Tarn-et-Garonne, South West France....
   the first of its kind was built on the Canal latéral à la Garonne
  Canal de Garonne
  
  The Canal de Garonne, until recently called the Canal lat?ral ? la Garonne, is a French canal dating from the 19th century which connects Toulouse to Bordeaux....
   in France.

Other examples

With caissons

• The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
  Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
  
  The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal, and occasionally referred to as the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from 1836 until 1924 parallel to the Potomac River in Maryland from Cumberland, Maryland to Washington, DC....
   in Washington, D.C.
  Washington, D.C.
  
  Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the Capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790....
   later had an inclined plane built to move boats into the Potomac River
  Potomac River
  
  The Potomac River flows into the Chesapeake Bay, located along the mid-Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States. The river is approximately 383 statute miles long, with a Drainage basin of about 14,700 square miles ....
   so that they could bypass Georgetown
  Georgetown, Washington, D.C.
  
  Georgetown is a neighborhood located in the Washington DC Address #Quadrants of Washington, D.C., along the Potomac River waterfront. Founded in 1751, the city of Georgetown substantially predated the establishment of the city of Washington and the District of Columbia....
   which was becoming congested with traffic. The inclined plane was two miles (3 km) upriver from Georgetown.
• Foxton Inclined Plane
• Ronquières inclined plane
  Ronquières inclined plane
  
  The Ronqui?res Inclined Plane is a Belgian canal inclined plane on the Brussels-Charleroi Canal in the province of Hainaut in Wallonia built in 1968....
   on the Brussels Charleroi Canal in Belgium.
• The electric "ship elevator" at the Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam
  Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam
  
  The Krasnoyarsk hydroelectric dam, located on the Yenisey river about upstream from Krasnoyarsk in Divnogorsk, was finished in 1964 and supplies 6000 MW of power, mostly used to supply the KrAZ ....
  , ship capacity up to 1500 tons, maximum ship size 80 x 17 x 2 metres, elevation 104 metres.

Without caissons

• Big Chute Marine Railway
  Big Chute Marine Railway
  
  Big Chute Marine Railway is a ship lift at Lock 44 of the Trent-Severn Waterway in Ontario, Canada. It works on an inclined plane to carry boats in a cradle over a change of height of about ....
   on the Trent-and-Severn-Waterway in Canada
• Bude Canal
  Bude Canal
  
  The Bude Canal was a canal built to serve the hilly hinterland in the Devon and Cornwall border territory in the United Kingdom, chiefly to bring lime-bearing sand for agricultural fertiliser....
   in Cornwall
  Cornwall
  
  Cornwall , constitutional Duchy and palatine, is a metropolitan and non-metropolitan counties of England of England, United Kingdom, located at the tip of the south-western peninsula of Great Britain....
  
• Elblag Canal
  Elblag Canal
  
  Elblag Canal is a canal in Poland, in Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, 80.5 km in length, which runs southward from Druzno , to the river Drweca and lake Jeziorak....
   between Elblag
  Elblag
  
  Elblag is a city in northern Poland with 127,892 inhabitants . It is the capital of Elblag County and has been assigned to the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1999....
   and Ostróda
  Ostróda
  
  Ostr?da [] is a town in Ostr?da County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in Poland, with 33,603 inhabitants as of January 1 2005. It lies in the Masurian Lake District and is a growing tourist site owing to its relaxing natural surroundings....
   in Poland
  Poland
  
  Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian Enclave and exclave, to the north....
  
• Hay Inclined Plane
  Hay Inclined Plane
  
  The Hay Inclined Plane is a canal inclined plane in the Ironbridge Gorge in Shropshire, with a height of 207 feet . It was located on a short stretch of the Shropshire Canal that linked the industrial area of Blists Hill with the River Severn....
   in the Ironbridge Gorge
  Ironbridge Gorge
  
  The Ironbridge Gorge is a deep gorge formed by the River Severn in Shropshire, England.Originally called the Severn Gorge, the gorge now takes its name from its famous The Iron Bridge, the first iron bridge of its kind in the world, and a monument to the industry that began there....
  , Shropshire
  Shropshire
  
  Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
  
• Morris Canal
  Morris Canal
  
  The Morris Canal was an anthracite-carrying canal that incorporated a series of hydropower Canal inclined planes in its course across northern New Jersey in the United States....
  , Northern New Jersey.
• St. Columb Canal
  St. Columb Canal
  
  St. Columb Canal sometimes referred to as Edyvean's Canal, was first proposed by the Cornish engineer, John Edyvean in 1773. His idea was to run a canal from Mawgan Porth through parishes inland and to return to Newquay....
   built by John Edyvean
  John Edyvean
  
  John Edyveanwas a Cornish people engineer who invented the inclined plane system, to reduce the necessity for Canal locks on the canal system....
  
• Trench
  Trench, Telford
  
  Trench is a suburb of the new town of Telford, England in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England....
   inclined plane on the Shrewsbury Canal
  Shrewsbury Canal
  
  The Shrewsbury Canal was a canal in Shropshire, England. Authorised in 1793, the main line from Trench to Shrewsbury was fully open by 1797, but it remained isolated from the rest of the canal network until 1835, when the Birmingham and Liverpool Junction Canal built the Newport Branch from Norbury Junction to a new junction with the Shrewsb...
  , Shropshire
  Shropshire
  
  Shropshire , alternatively known as Salop or abbreviated, in print only, Shrops, is a Counties of England in the West Midlands of England....
  
• Underground inclined plane in the Worsley Navigable Levels
  Worsley Navigable Levels
  
  The Worsley Navigable Levels are an extensive series of coal mines in Worsley in the City of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. They were worked largely by the use of underground canals and boats called starvationers....
  

See also

• Boat lift
  Boat lift
  
  A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock and the canal inclined plane....
  
• Funicular
  Funicular
  
  A funicular, also known as a funicular railway, incline, inclined railway, inclined plane, or cliff railway, is a type of self-contained cable railway in which a wire rope attached to a pair of tram-like vehicles on Rail tracks#Railway rail moves them up and down a very steep slope, the ascending and descending v...
  
• Portage
  Portage
  
  Portage refers to the practice of carrying a canoe or other boat over land to avoid an obstacle on the water route , or between two bodies of water ....
  
• Water slope
  Water slope
  
  A Water Slope is a type of Canal inclined plane built to carry boats from a canal or river at one elevation up to or down to a canal or river at another elevation....
  
• Inclined plane
  Inclined plane
  
  The inclined plane is one of the original six simple machines; as the name suggests, it is a flat surface whose endpoints are at different heights....
   – the simple machine
  Simple machine
  
  A simple machine is a mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force.In general, they can be defined as the simplest mechanisms that use mechanical advantage to multiply force....
  

Further reading

External links

• , Canal de La Marne au Rhin, Alsace-Lorraine
  Alsace-Lorraine
  
  Alsace-Lorraine was a territorial entity created by the German Empire in 1871 after the annexation of most of Alsace and the Moselle region of Lorraine in the Franco-Prussian War....
  , France
  France
  
  France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
  
• (official site)
• — photograph gallery showing all stages of ship elevation
• – Mainly concerning Funiculars but with a good section on canal inclined planes
• – Dutch Overtoom page