How Inland Waterways Work | Wendover Productions
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How Inland Waterways Work | Wendover Productions

C1AdvancedOctober 5, 202628 min
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How Inland Waterways Work To try everything Brilliant has to offer for free for a full 30 days, visit https://brilliant.org/wendoverYoutube: http://www.YouTube.com/WendoverProductions Instagram: http://Instagram.com/sam.from.wendover Twitter: http://www.Twitter.com/WendoverPro Sponsorship Enquiries: [email protected] Other emails: [email protected] Reddit: http://Reddit.com/r/WendoverProductionsWriting by Sam Denby and Tristan Purdy Editing by Alexander Williard Animation led by Max Moser Sound by Graham Haerther Thumbnail by Simon Buckmaster Wendover Productions is all about explaining how our world works. From travel, to economics, to geography, to marketing and more...

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than the Mississippi River.

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There is perhaps no single geographic feature that has advanced the American economy more than the Mississippi River. That's because nowhere else on earth has a river been crafted into this long of a navigable commercial waterway.

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Nowhere else can one float a barge 1,800 miles or 2,900 kilometers down a river without encountering one stretch of low water, one bout of rapids, one rock in the way, one single obstacle to seamless commercial navigation. And compounding this waterway's supremacy is its tributaries.

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The Tennessee River extends navigability as far as Knoxville, the Arkansas as far as Tulsa, the Missouri to Sioux City, the Illinois to Chicago, and the Ohio extends almost a thousand river miles from the Mississippi, connecting Pittsburgh to all the rest of the Mississippi River region.

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