John Stevens was appointed Chief Engineer of the Panama Canal Project in 1905 ... Stevens drew up logical plans for the canal's construction. One of the first things he did was to ask 27-year ...

John Stevens was appointed chief engineer of the Panama canal Project in 1905 ... Stevens drew up logical plans for the canal's construction. One of the first things he did was to call on 27 ...

Every decision on canal construction must be cleared with ... July 26, 1905: The Stevens Years New Chief Engineer John Stevens arrives in Panama stressing the importance of satisfactory ...

Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal ... into the swamps of Panama, to damned little effect. The arrival of Wallace's replacement, the rugged and ingenious John Stevens, marked a ...

The Panama Pacific International ... in 1904 — a decade before the canal's construction would be done. The canal's celebrated chief engineer, John Stevens, had not even been hired.

The Panama Canal's impact on the geopolitical stage far outreaches its roughly 51-mile stretch of land and water. This week, we're trying to... A look at the human toll of the construction of the ...

The Panama Canal is exploring the construction of a pipeline to move liquefied petroleum gas across the trade passage, canal ...

The 50-mile Panama Canal ... and Foreign Commerce, Stevens spoke of the need to forgo a sea-level canal, telling lawmakers, “the one great problem in the construction of any canal down there ...

The construction also cost Panama decades of sovereignty. As Panamanian historian Marixa Lasso described in her book “Erased,” the canal was not built upon cleared virgin, uninhabited forest ...

Every decision on canal construction must be cleared with ... July 26, 1905: The Stevens Years New Chief Engineer John Stevens arrives in Panama stressing the importance of satisfactory ...