How the Panama Canal Was Built: Lifting Ships Over Mountains

The first attempt to cut a canal through Panama ended in disaster. The second succeeded with an idea that sounds impossible: instead of digging the mountains down to the sea, it lifted the ships over them. Here's how it was built: the French failure, the war on mosquitoes, a 36-to-31 vote, the Culebra Cut and its landslides, and locks that run on gravity and rain. Chapters #Megastructures #Engineering #PanamaCanal