Given the time, place and circumstances, the Panama Canal remains the greatest engineering enterprise of the 20th century. A mathematically-gifted Alabama farm boy, who later found a home in Old Kentucky, parlayed his imagination and engineering expertise to conquer the most technically demanding part of Panama Canal construction--Gatun Locks and Dam. William Luther Sibert arrived in Panama in 1907, part of President Theodore Roosevelt's Army Corps of Engineers spearhead with orders to pierce the forbidden Isthmus of Panama ...
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Given the time, place and circumstances, the Panama Canal remains the greatest engineering enterprise of the 20th century. A mathematically-gifted Alabama farm boy, who later found a home in Old Kentucky, parlayed his imagination and engineering expertise to conquer the most technically demanding part of Panama Canal construction--Gatun Locks and Dam. William Luther Sibert arrived in Panama in 1907, part of President Theodore Roosevelt's Army Corps of Engineers spearhead with orders to pierce the forbidden Isthmus of Panama, where thousands died during the failed French efforts. The American attempt was a long shot according to conventional wisdom--until the world learned all about TR and his Army Engineers. Following World War I, the tired general took time from his hobby of fox hunting to engineer the dock-rail-highway complex that transformed Mobile, Alabama, into a major American port. At President Calvin Coolidge's request, he chaired the Sibert Commission that reviewed and subsequently approved plans to construct Boulder (Hoover) Dam.
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