This documentary tells the story behind the construction of the Panama Canal. Truly a project of Yankee ingenuity and enterprise, the Panama Canal took many years and many minds to complete. Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by means of a canal was not a twentieth century idea. That came in 1534. The French took a decade in the 1880's to try their hands at it, but disease that killed 20,000 construction workers caused them to abandon the project. It was the Americans, under the helm of President Theodore Roosevelt, ...
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This documentary tells the story behind the construction of the Panama Canal. Truly a project of Yankee ingenuity and enterprise, the Panama Canal took many years and many minds to complete. Connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans by means of a canal was not a twentieth century idea. That came in 1534. The French took a decade in the 1880's to try their hands at it, but disease that killed 20,000 construction workers caused them to abandon the project. It was the Americans, under the helm of President Theodore Roosevelt, who made the dream a reality, and catapulted the United States into the role of global leader. Through advances in medicine, they were able to control the dreaded disease of malaria, which had claimed so many lives. An innovative design for a series of locks solved the problem of how to get ships through the canal. Rose of Sharon Winter, Rovi
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