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Planning of the Panama Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps had built the built the suez canal in the 1860s, and started planning to build the Panama canal in the 1880s, but this effort failed because of design flaws, tropical disease, and mismanagement -
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The Opportunity to Build at a Better Site in Panama
In 1902-1903 they got the opportunity to build in a better site in panama. The United States negotiated with columbia and then with panama for canal rights. -
The United States Take Over The Project in 1904
France began work on the canal in 1881. but stopped due to engineering problems and a high worker mortality rate. The United States took over the project in 1904. The United states continued the project. -
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United States Building the Canal
In 1904-1913 the united states of America started building the canal in 1904 and finished building it in 1913. There had been a lot of workers that died because of tropical diseases but they finally got it done. -
John Findley Wallace Is Appointed
On May 6, 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed John Findley Wallace, formerly chief engineer and finally general manager of the Illinois Central Railroad, as chief engineer of the Panama Canal Project. Overwhelmed by the disease-plagued country and forced to use often -
The Sea Level Aprroach
In 1906 Stevens, who had seen the Chagres in full flood, was summoned to Washington and declared a sea-level approach to be "an entirely untenable proposition". He argued in favor of a canal using a lock system to raise and lower ships from a large reservoir 85 ft above sea level. This would create both the largest dam and the largest man-made lake in the world at that time. -
Opening of the Panama Canal
In 1914 the canal was formally opened on August 15, 1914. The opening of Panama Canal in 1914 caused a severe drop in traffic along Chilean ports due to shifts in the maritime trade routes. -
Torrijos–Carter Treaties
The panama canal continued to be the same and the united states owned until the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties provided for handover to Panama.This mobilized the process of granting the Panamanians free control of the canal so long as Panama signed a treaty guaranteeing the permanent neutrality of the canal. -
The Invention of the Panamax
In 1980 ships classified as panamax designed to fit the the dimensions of the canal locks started appearing. They brought the maximum amount of cargo that they could through the canal. They were made to be a more efficient way to transport a lot of cargo between the two oceans -
The Panamanian Government Take Control
The panamanian government and the Americans both had control over the panama canal until 1999 when the canal was taken over by the Panamanian government and is now managed and operated by the government-owned Panama Canal Authority.
