Modern Marvels: The Construction of the Panama Canal (S1, E3)
Aug 15, 2020 · Chronicles one of the most incredible engineering feats of all time: construction of the 51-mile canal that took ten years to build and employed over 40,000 workers, 6,000 of whom died from...
How the Panama Canal Was Built | The Engineering that Built ... - YouTube
Nov 4, 2021 · 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. S...
Watch Panama Canal | American Experience | Official Site - PBS
Jan 24, 2011 · On August 15th, 1914, the Panama Canal opened, connecting the world’s two largest oceans and signaling America’s emergence as a global superpower. American ingenuity and innovation had...
Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal - Alex ...
Apr 27, 2021 · Discover what it took to build the Panama Canal, and how this colossal construction project changed the region. -- In the 19th century, the California gold rush brought thousands of settlers to...
Panama Canal (2011) - IMDb
Jan 24, 2011 · It recounts the long history of the dream of an isthmian canal, and tells how the collapse of an ambitious French canal effort, doomed by poor planning and rampant disease, provided an opening for a United States eager to announce …
Demolition, disease, and death: Building the Panama Canal
May 4, 2021 · Discover what it took to build the Panama Canal, and how this colossal construction project changed the region. In the 19th century, the California gold rush brought thousands of settlers to America's west coast. But finding gold may have been easier than transporting it back east.
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Despite overwhelming odds, rough terrain, boiling temperatures and tropical diseases, the Panama Canal was completed in 1914. Theodore Roosevelt's magnetic personality drove this patriotic project, which made the U.S. a world power.
Watch The Panama Canal: History & Operation | Prime Video
The construction of the Panama Canal, from the first failed attempt by the French through the successful completion by the United States under the stewardship of President Teddy Roosevelt, was one of the most amazing engineering feats of the last several hundred years.
"The Engineering That Built the World" The Panama Canal (TV ... - IMDb
Oct 31, 2021 · The Panama Canal: Directed by Andy Gradwell, Stuart Jones. With Ian Karr, Stefan Boehm, Darren Charles, Daniel Dickrell. A story of building the Panama Canal, one of the most difficult and challenging construction projects in history.
Panama Canal - PBS America | UK
A documentary recalling the history of the Panama Canal which, at the time of its construction, was the costliest undertaking in human history. Creating a shipping channel to link the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans meant breaking the back of the …