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A tubular lock is a variation of a pin tumbler lock, where the pins are arranged in a circle facing the front of the lock and are operated by a tubular key. It was once referred to as an ACE lock, with ACE being a trademark of the Chicago Lock Company, but the generic term tubular lock is far more common these days.
The Panama Canal locks are a lock system that lifts a ship up 85 feet to the main elevation of the Panama Canal and down again. The original canal had a total of six steps for a ship's passage. The total length of the lock structures, including the approach walls, is over 1.9 miles. The locks were one of the greatest engineering works ever to be undertaken when they opened in 1914. No other concrete construction of comparable size was undertaken until the Hoover Dam, in the 1930s. There are two