Ferdinand de Lesseps
Building Gatun Lock, the first of three between Colon and Panama. United States army engineers finally completed the construction of the Panama Canal in seven years at a cost of $400,000,000.
Pedro Miguel Lock, at the end of the Gaillard Cut which cleaves the continental divide at its lowest point. Over half of the canal's forty miles traverses Gatun Lake, formed by damming the Chagres.
Spectators gathered along railroad tracks on October 10, 1913 (below), to watch workers dynamite Gamboa Dike, freeing the waters of Gatun Lake to flood Culebra Cut for its final dredging. Ten months later - after ten years of effort - the Panama Canal was complete
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