history of panama canal?

Question

when did the work begins,social conditions at that time,difficulties for the construction,cost,participation of labours,how much the canal is important for the countries and also wants some pictures of panama canal.

Answer 1

The Panama Canal
This link also has photos
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The Panama Canal was constructed in two stages. The first between 1881 and 1888, being the work carried out by the French company headed by de Lessop and secondly the work by the Americans which eventually completed the canals construction between 1904 and 1914.

The contract for the canals construction was signed on March 12th, 1881, and it was agreed the work would be carried out for 512 million French francs, but the contract was conditional in the sense it was not to become binding until two years had elapsed.
During 1882 the excavation of the Culebra Cut was started,
In 1883 it was realised there was a tidal range of 20 feet at the Pacific, whereas, the Atlantic range was only about 1 foot.
The French company started to run into financial difficulties during 1885
The value of work completed by the French was about $ 25 million
The American expenditures from 1904 to 1914 totaled $352,000,000,

The construction of the canal was recommenced by the Americans in 1904. The first step on the agenda was to improve the standard of living and ensure ill health would be a thing of the past.
The first American steam shovel started work on the Culebra cut on 11th November 1904. By December 1905 there were 2,600 men at work in the Culebra cut.
http://www.eclipse.co.uk/~sl5763/panama.htm

Death and Dying in Panama
Disease and squalor nearly squash the plans of Panama's canal builders.
http://www.historyhouse.com/in_history/panama_3/
Maps both old and modern
http://lostparadise.com/maps/index.html
Tourist Map/ Excellent
http://lostparadise.com/maps/images/touristmap001.jpg
Photos
http://www.smplanet.com/imperialism/joining.html
Opening day photo
http://www.canalmuseum.com/photos/panamacanalphoto042.htm


Extremely good photos from 1886 to
1915

http://www.canalmuseum.com/photos/index.htm

This is a very exciting part history and needs to be read or at least browsed by you.

Answer 2

In 1850 the U. S. and great Britain negotiated the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty to reign in rivalry over a proposed canal in the process the standard American Republic of Nicaragua. The Anglo-American canal, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that, by no potential went previous the making plans levels. French tries to construct a canal through Panama (province of Colombia) stepped forward greater desirable. Led by employing Ferdinand de Lesseps—the builder of the Suez Canal in Egypt—the French began excavating in 1880. Malaria, yellow fever, and different tropical illnesses conspired against the de Lesseps marketing campaign and after 9 years and a loss of roughly 20,000 lives, the French attempt went bankrupt. regardless of such setbacks, American interest in a canal continued unabated. The Hay-Pauncefote Treaty of 1901 abrogated the quicker Clayton-Bulwer Treaty and authorized the U. S. to construct and cope with its very own canal. Following heated debate over the region of the proposed canal, on June 19, 1902, the U.S. Senate voted in want of making the canal through Panama. interior 6 months, Secretary of State John Hay signed a treaty with Colombian distant places Minister Tomás Herrán to construct the hot canal. The financial words have been unacceptable to Colombia’s congress, and it rejected the supply. President Roosevelt replied by employing dispatching U.S. warships to Panama city (on the Pacific) and Colón (on the Atlantic) in help of Panamanian independence. Colombian troops have been no longer able to barter the jungles of the Darien Strait and Panama declared independence on November 3, 1903. The newly declared Republic of Panama right this moment named Philippe Bunau-Varilla (a French engineer who have been in touch interior the quicker de Lesseps canal attempt) as Envoy magnificent and Minister Plenipotentiary. In his new function, Bunau-Varilla negotiated the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty of 1903, which offered the U. S. with a 10-mile huge strip of land for the canal, a one-time $10 million charge to Panama, and an annual annuity of $250,000. the U. S. additionally agreed to guarantee the independence of Panama. executed in 1914, the Panama Canal symbolized U.S. technological prowess and financial capability. besides the actuality that U.S. administration of the canal ultimately became an irritant to U.S.-Panamanian relatives, on the time it became into heralded as a important distant places coverage fulfillment.

Answer 3

try to see the program in National Geographic Channel MEGAMOVERS, it will help you a lot..and also search in the internet..

Answer 4

go to wikipedia....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Canal

Answer 5

you can find more info on vikipedia itself