Panama Canal Essay

Panama Canal Essay The Panama Canal was one of the greatest triumphs and tragedies of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.The tragedy was that of the French, they were just simply too far ahead of technology, at that time, to complete or even get farther than the very beginning of the Panama Canal. The American's took over the project after President Theodore Roosevelt's pushing of the Panamanian Revolution. After the Revolution the Americans …

…to go through the Canal was the Anaheim. The Panama Canal was an engineering achievement in its own time and ours. In the first ten years the Panama Canal let through over 5,000 ships per year. The Panama Canal's biggest fee for a ship was Queen Annabelle's cruise liner at a whopping 95000 dollars. The smallest fee for a trip through the Canal was a miniscule thirty-six cents for a man who swam the entire fifty miles.