17. Work was a little harder then what they expected, and the cost was also high, once workers thought they were improving in the labor something else would come up, (ex. mood slides), engineers were not well trained for that job, and did not know how to improvise
18. In the 10 yr. span that the French were in Panama 20,000 people died
19. Money ran out, the task was to much … if maybe Ferdinand de Lesseps didn’t insist on building the canal at sea level it could have worked
20. 1889 Ferdinand de Lesseps canal company collapsed, biggest financial failure in history at the time, government fall.. Ferdinand de Lesseps ended his days in disgrace
21. The construction was left there un-talked of because is was just a big national disgraced and many wasted lives
37. Temp. reached up to 120 degrees with all the machineries operating
38. Many people died either by rocks flying, or getting stuck under wheels, or by dynamite exploding
39. Life in construction became stratified, Compensations for engineers officers at the top level
40. Bottom level ordinary day labors all foreign-1920, 50,000 workers less than 10% where Americans, most were English speaking west Indians, foreign workers blacks got paid silver, whites were paid in gold 3. 4.
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42. All locks were constructed in 36 foot sections and on tracks they would be moved to the next position over all length was 1,000 feet weigh 110 feet
43. Each lock was probably bigger than titanic, each lock was actually tallest than the Eiffel tower
66. While Mulholland was supervising the aqueducts inLos Angeles, they began a meter program that could help water conservation in los Angeles water usage. The usage dropped water per capita 178 gallon, and compared to unmetered cities LA used less than half of water