Sentence examples for construct the canal from inspiring English sources

Retiring to Worsley after a broken engagement, he instructed the engineer James Brindley to construct the canal for the transport of coal obtained on his estates.

An Act was obtained in 1759 which authorized Kemmett and the others to construct the canal without any locks to avoid loss of water to the mills.

The bridge over the canal that currently uses PA 405 was constructed in 1854 at a cost of $27,000 (1854 USD), nine times the amount to construct the canal.

As a temporary solution Thomas Walker, the contractor selected to construct the canal, agreed to accept £500,000 of the contract price in shares, but raising the remainder required another Act of Parliament to allow the company's share capital to be restructured as £3 million of ordinary shares and £4 million of preference shares.

Yet the minutes of the SAC meeting said the company "made mistakes" in constructing the canal.

The misconception dates to 1906 when the president, Eloy Alfaro, ordered more than 200,000 hats to be sent north for toiling workers constructing the canal.

Francis Egerton, 3rd duke of Bridgewater, who lived at Worsley Old Hall, employed the engineer James Brindley to construct the Bridgewater Canal (1761), the first true canal in England, to let him transport coal cheaply to Manchester from his mines in Worsley.

Efforts to construct the Panama canal were compromised by mortality from yellow fever until severe measures were taken to reduce the mosquito population.

His Grade II listed home, designed by Thomas Worthington for John Edward Taylor, the editor and proprietor of the Manchester Guardian, was the venue for the 1882 meeting at which it was decided to construct the Ship Canal project.

Schuyler used his considerable influence to convince the state Senate to finance two enterprises the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company and the Northern Inland Lock Navigation Company that together would construct the two canals.

In 1794 coal proprietors formed a committee to construct the Somerset Coal Canal with two branches into the Cam Brook and Wellow Brook Valleys, and from a junction at Midford, to join the proposed Kennet and Avon Canal at the Dundas Aqueduct near Bath.