What Is the Panama Canal?

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What Is the Panama Canal?

Educational: History Educational: Sciences, general science Educational: Technology

Authors: Janet B. Pascal, Tim Foley

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Collection: What Was?

Language: English

Published by: Penguin Workshop

Published on: 17th July 2014

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 64 Mb

ISBN: 9780698171855


Before 1914

Traveling from the East Coast to the West Coast meant going by land across the entire United States. To go by sea involved a long journey around South America and north along the Pacific Coast.

The Panama Canal

But then, in a dangerous and amazing feat of engineering, a 48-mile-long channel was dug through Panama, creating the world's most famous shortcut: the Panama Canal!

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