Panama Canal

Hello my good People,  :)
Okay, so on Friday I traveled to the time of 1881 were I talked to Ferdinand de Lesseps, leader of the French men who started the construction. Also John Stevens and American who took over him after he died. These are dot pointed facts sentences about the construction of the Panama Canal.

• Joined Africa and Europe to pass through goods
• Achieved by a French man F. Lesseps
• 8,000 miles long, from Atlantic - Pacific by boat
• $6,000,000 to prepare a canal company
• Native people were used to escavate trees and rocks by hand and tools
• A mountain range blocked the path, therefore 120,000,000 tones of dirt had to be moved
• A tropical disease was killing of workers, with no cure! 6,000 died in the first 5 years
• Rain was feared for the destruction of plans, mountain slides, harder to work
• Taking 15 years longer than first thought, 350 die every month, the killer had been identified, the grave diggers were getting rich
• It is 1885 ad only 10% was done, The two men resigned from the company and it went bankrupt in 1889
• Lesseps died, and over 20,000 men were perished,  17 years elapsed before another man took over
• John Stevens (American) became chief engineer and inspected the french ruins, wanted to build it so US Navy could dominate the seas
• He used better machinery to put rock/dirt onto trains and conveyor belts
• He used a rock plow, to reduce rock slides and moved more in a day than the French would in a month.
• A doctor was transported to the hospital from America and called the disease yellow fever, he found that the culprit was the mosquito and the hospital was acting like an incubator for yellow disease
• Mosquito's were fumigated, After 6 months Gorgas the Doctor told everybody that the disease was gone.
• The canal was finished by John Stevens in 1914, It took the Americans 20+ years to finish the Canal

I hope you all gathered a thought to how the graetest canal was built all those years ago :)
Taylah xo