The Canal is a triumph, not of man's hands, but of machinery.Continuing The Panama Canal Opens,our selection from In Panama by Bampfylde Fuller.
The Panama Canal Described
Ships should complete the fifty mile transit of the Isthmus within twelve hours at most.Continuing The Panama Canal Opens,Today we begin the
To Use Locks or Not on the Panama Canal?
The idea of the sea-level canal appeals to the popular mind, which pictures an open ditch offering free and unobstructed navigation from sea to sea,
The Panama Canal Opens
This series has six easy 5 minute installments. This first installment: USA Acquires the Territory to Build the Panama
Randolph and Jennie
Another installment in my seriesCHURCHILL’S WORLDStories of the world during the time Winston Churchill lived in it: 1873 to
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable – 4
Today's installment concludes The Laying of the Atlantic Cable,our selection by Cyrus W. Field.If you have journeyed through all of the
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable – 3
The good-fortune which favored using our ship favored us also in our commander, Captain Anderson, who was for years in the Cunard Line.Continuing
Laying of the Atlantic Cable – 2
The United States had become involved in a tremendous war; and while the nation was struggling for life, it had no time to spend in foreign
The Laying of the Atlantic Cable
This series has four easy 5 minute installments.IntroductionTwenty-two years after the completion of the first telegraph line between Washington