A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:L: 80 x 40cm an explanatory key and scale

an explanatory key and scale of 1 inch: 4 feet

Found in the collection of the Malmö Konstmuseum

c1870-1900 (1924)

in the Parish of St George

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama Size:L: 80 x 40cm an explanatory key and scaleA lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal, Ferdinand de Lesseps. The French began work in 1880, but 9 years later the difficulties posed by the terrain, disease and spiralling costs doomed the project to failure. The United States bought the land in 1904 for $40 million, and proceeded to complete the 80