The document summarizes key details about the Panama Canal, including that it is a 400-year-old project located 9 degrees north of the equator where ships must line up to pass through. Locks lift ships up 85 feet using electric locomotives to guide them through, and the locks function like giant elevators for the ships. The pioneers of the canal project faced immense challenges due to diseases in the jungle terrain that caused many worker deaths each month during construction.

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2. Panama Canal
 400 year old project.
 “A man, a plan, a canal,
panama!”
 9’ north of equator.
 Ships have to line up for
their turns
 Up to 6 electric locomotives
guide ships through locks
 Ships are raised by locks.
 These locks are like giant
elevators for the ships,
lifting them a total of 85
feet (7 story building)
 Among the most massive
structures ever built
 Much is hiden below water

3. Panama Canal
 The Pioneers
 Count Ferdinand Delesepse
 Builder of the suas canal
 Known as le gromme francais.
The great frenchman
 Built a unobstructed 105 mile
passage dug through sand at
sea level.
 Married twice, with which he
had 12 children
 Saves 8thousand miles
 Follows panama railroad 50
mile route

4. Panama Canal
 Panama is poisoned with disease.
 Dangerous as Beautiful
 Began by cutting a path several hundred feet wide through the jungle
terrain by hand!
 Then they began digging
 Every month more workers came to help, and every month many died.
 Smallpox, malaria, yellow fever, and food poisoning
 “Am I a canal digger? Or a grave digger?