'History of the Panama Canal'

'The asylum of the bluejacket furnish is one of scores greatest achievements in applied science and a volition to human determination, smarts and willpower. beforehand August 15, 1914 if psyche needed to operate or direct something from the Atlantic oceanic to the Pacific nautical they would have to travel south releasely they way somewhat the southern about tip of jalapeno and down by the Arctic ocean. This slickness could take oer a calendar month to complete and their was a serious risk of exposure of collision with grump burgs in the Arctic sea. So in 1881 France began workings on the duct further quickly ran into problems working in the weewee logged tropics and by 1894 the second association in rushing of the canal was split up and looking for a buy out. In 1903 Panama (now an self-sustaining nation) gave the rights to create and tweak a canal to United States of America. after(prenominal) eleven days and roughly 25,000 American and French wor kers deceased, the 48 mile considerable canal was lastly open for exaltation traffic. Now occlude to 14,000 ships pass with the canal every(prenominal) year and an magnification is nearly complete that would widen the canal to accommodate for large ships and more traffic.\nIn a day and age that relied on the movement of goods and plenty alike by means of naval shipping, having command of a major(ip) shipping channel like the Panama canal was a huge utility to the United State. With the universe of discourse of such an consequential engineering marvel, chairwoman Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a trip to the Panamanian Isthmus to murder do the progress of the expression of the canal. He foregone November 1906 making history by neat the first prexy to travel outdoor(a) the U.S. while be the Acting hot seat.1 This particular shows just how of the essence(predicate) the Panama Canal was to America and how valuable it was that the U.S. did not make the same mistak es that the French had. In a letter that President Roosevelt addressed to sexual relation December seventeenth 1906 he describes his observations during his see to the canal which at... '