Transactions Of The Canadian Society Of Civil Engineers

Author : Engineering Institute Of Canada
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780483287228
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 3 written by Engineering Institute Of Canada and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Transactions of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. 3: Session, 1889 Twenty years hardly had elapsed since the discovery of the new continent, when Saavedra, a Spaniard, proposed to cut a canal through the Isthmus of Darien and only eight years later, the Portu guess Antonib Galvao indicated four different routes through the Isthmuses of Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Darien. The idea of uniting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has never been abandoned since, and, successively or simultaneously, Spaniards, Portu guess, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Americans, Belgians, etc. Have explored the American Isthmus, with the hope of finding an adequate solution to that mighty problem. Navigators, soldiers, engineers, financiers, scholars, even princes and kings, have been attracted by the desire to attach their names to that great work, and have devoted to it, time, labor and money. Wealth and science, walking hand in hand, cannot fail to attain their goal, and after two hundred and Sixty years of hard toil, the execution of that gigantic enterprise has at last been undertaken. It is not the Object of this communication to give a history or even a sketch of all the works and discoveries made by these daring pioneers; but, without in any way lessening the share Of fame and glory achieved by the present promoters and directors, it must not be for gotten that they have been reaping the benefit Of the explorations made by their predecessors, and that if today the period Of execution has been Opened, it is due as much to the pressing need of means Of rapid communication as to the energy and ability displayed by Messrs. Wise, de Lesseps, and others. The meeting of the Congres International, in 1879, the formation of the Société Internationale du Canal Interocéanique de Panama, In 1880, and the Opening Of the works in 1881, are events still fresh in every memory we will therefore enter at once into a description of the proposed Panama canal, and of the works executed up to January lst, 1888. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.