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Panama and What It Means (Classic Reprint)
Panama and What It Means - Classic Reprint Author:John Foster Fraser Excerpt from Panama and What It Means — Colonel Goethals; Map of the Panama Canal; Diagram of Elevations when the Canal is Finished; A Steam Shovel at Work; A Track-shifting Machine; A "Spreader" at Work; Steam Shovels at Work, September 9, 1912; Building the Breakwater to protect the Atlantic Entrance to the Canal, July 21, 1911; The Gatun Dam, ... more »with the Water of the Lake beginning to Rise, June 7, 1912; Gatun Spillway: General View looking West, August 4, 1912; The Spillway at Gatun, showing the Rising Surface of Gatun Lake in the Distance, September 7, 1912; Gatun Upper Lock, showing Guard Gates, Operating Gates, Intermediate Gates, and Safety Gates in Process of Construction, June, 1912; A Bend in the Culebra Cut, June, 1912; The Notorious Cucaracha "Slide," October 23, 1911; Hand Drill Gang boring Holes for Dynamite to blast Moving Face of a "Slide" in the Culebra Cut, February, 1912; Culebra Cut, looking North from Contractors' Hill, and showing Terraces left after removing Superimposed Weight to avoid "Slides"
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