The main channels of the canal were to be 26 feet wide at the base and 40 feet wide at the water line (see Diagram 1). The water depth was to be four feet. Horses and mules provided the power for the canal boats.
The definition of a quarry is a place, often a deep hole in the ground, from where stones are extracted. An example of a quarry is a deep hole from where granite is mined.
A compiler is a program that turns the languageâs statements into 0âs and 1âs for the computer to understand. This lead to faster programming, as the programmer no longer had to do the work by hand. In 1957, the first of the major languages appeared in the form of FORTRAN.