President
Theodore Roosevelt authorized the start of construction on the Panama
Canal on this day in 1904. The fifty mile canal
crossed the Isthmus of Panama and enabled ships to travel from the Pacific and
Atlantic Oceans without having to undertake the long voyage around South America. The construction--which continued for just over a decade--involved
many innovative engineering and medical advances, employed tens of thousands of
workers, and cost an estimated $350 million.
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