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The Engineering Marvel called Panama Canalwww.youtube.com/watch?v=jh79YSCC8mM
334 sats \ 7 comments \ @k00b 6 Feb Construction_and_Engineering
I must've played hooky (odds are I did) when this was taught in public schools. I never learned about it. It's a kind of hybrid beauty - human ingenuity situated in Panama's landscape. I hope to cross it someday.
This is a time lapse of a commercial vessel crossing it:
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 6 Feb
The first thing that comes to my mind about the construction of this canal is about me reading about a guy name William Gorgas (spelling?) and how his efforts on trying to control and cure yellow fever was a big contribution on getting this project done.
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177 sats \ 4 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Feb
It was also an absolute blood bath. A lot of people died making it.
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124 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 6 Feb
The video talks about it. IIRC 22,000 people died.
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67 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Feb
Lots of malaria and yellow fever. You can accomplish quite a lot if you throw enough people at it.
Still, it was an insane feat to accomplish.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 6 Feb
The first guy in charge was a French engineer who tried to emulate the Suez Canal but that attempt was a disaster
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9 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark 6 Feb
It's amazing that the whole thing is gravity driven. Way better idea than digging a long ditch.
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19 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b OP 6 Feb
The doors use Da Vinci's miter locks (video by the same channel):
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