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Canal Zone: Gatun Lake Cargo ship on Gatun Lake, part of the Panama Canal, in the historic Canal Zone, Panama.

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transportation, the movement of goods and persons from place to place and the various means by which such movement is accomplished. The growth of the ability—and the need—to transport large quantities of goods or numbers of people over long distances at high speeds in comfort and safety has been an index of civilization and in particular of technological progress. Transportation is treated in a number of articles. For the major types of propulsion used in...

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