John Frank Stevens engineered one of the greatest engineering wonders of the world, the Panama Canal, but he had to overcome many challenges along the way. See more in this clip from Season 1, “The Panama Canal.”
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Teddy's Big Ditch itself. The Panama Canal is the engine of commence that moves the world. Every day millions of ships pass through here to deliver the goods that supply America and the world. Where De Lesseps failed Stevens succeeded and instead of building a sea level canal like De Lesseps wanted they built four locks two on the Pacific side two on the Atlantic side.
But the pressure was two much for Stevens he quit in 1907 and Goethals finished the project. The Canal opened to boats on May 4, 1914 and was commissioned that August. In 2016 a new lane for Supermax ships was added and now every ship we make fallows a set standard to get through those locks.
Congratulations 👏 and all the best for your success and happiness ❤️
I'm glad that yall put actors in this because if not it would be a boring documentary. 😴
Thank God we worked together
White race is very genius than other races
What 8 thought it a French engineer who design this
I recognized that guy's voice from the podcast American History Story Tellers..and a few more. He's great!
If you can find it, get and read a copy of David McCullough's "The Path Between the Seas." Outstanding description of the politics behind French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps, who built the Suez Canal, to his failures in Panama and the completion by the U.S. after cessation from Colombia. I lived there for a very short five years during high school, an experience like no other anywhere else I've lived in the world.
A man a plan a canal Panama.
Fascinating 👍
Amazing.
Awesome! Props to the architects/engineers for using their gifts from God to construct a magnificent structure.
-The Ofori-Atta Family
Pretty much built by West Indians. Others as well but mainly West Indians.
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Plz bring vadio of urdu
A stolen issue from US to Colombia.
Amazing work. Big up from congo kinshasa kin. 🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩🇨🇩
I'm here to find out the power system design of panama canal can somebody help me, its for my school work in Instrumentation
Well thank god the Americans figured out how to build the Canal. If it were up to Colombia, they would still be trying to figure out the first lock to this day
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Bogus documentary
Too much talk.
Little informative engineering course of the project
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