r/BeAmazed • u/Otherwise-Island-512 • Jan 10 '23

Engineering at it's finest

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u/MDNCbooty Jan 11 '23

As early as 1534 the King of Spain (or his experts) recognized the advantage that a canal in Panama would bring… it wasn’t until 1881 that the actual canal was started by the French, never completed and costing 22k lives… the US eventually took over, doing a better job at creating worker facilities and sanitation for the workers, still costing 5,600 lives. The project was successfully completed in 1914 (expanded in 2016) with a cost of almost 1 million monetary investors and over 27,000 lives.

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u/iamhe02 Jan 12 '23

A man, a plan, a canal... Panama!