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A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926.
A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80 kilometre long canal between 1904 and 1914. The building of the canal cost the lives of an estimated 25,000 workers due to accidents and tropical diseases. From An Outline of Christianity, The Story of Our Civilisation, volume 5: Christianity Today and Tomorrow, edited by RG Parsons and AS Peake, published by the Waverley Book Club (London, 1926).
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AR959560
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Image
Purpose
Public
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5780px × 3023px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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1920s
20th century
as
AS Peake
Atlantic Ocean
B&W
B/W
Black & White
Black and white
Canal
FERDINAND
FERDINAND DE LESSEPS
History
Industry
LESSEPS
LOCK
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Ocean
Pacific Ocean
Panama
panama canal
Parsons
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RG Parsons
shipping Industry
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The Print Collector
transport
TRANSPORTATION
Twenties
Water
water transport