How To Shrink The World

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Sources: The Path Between the Seas, by David McCullough; The Panama Canal, by Lesley A. Dutemple; An Autobiography, by Theodore Roosevelt; Letters and Speeches of Theodore Roosevelt; Destiny by Design, by Jeremy Sherman Snapp

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THE SCALE OF THE WORK The lock-and-lake plan made much of the French digging superfluous. Still, U.S. excavations accounted for 75% of the total removed

•Excavated by FRANCE, 1881-1903 •Excavated by the U.S., 1904-1914 •Land not needing excavation

Caribbean Sea Gatun Locks Gatun Lake Culebra Cut (Now called Gaillard Cut) Pedro Miguel Locks Miraflores Locks Miraflores Lake Pacific Ocean CANAL ZONE Gatun Lake loses 26 million gal. of water each time a large ship passes through the locks •Colon •Gatun Locks •Gatun Dam •Gatun Lake •Railroad The Panama Railroad, opened in 1855, was the spine along which men, equipment and dirt moved during construction •Pedro Miguel Locks •Miraflores Locks •Panama City