The Panama Canal

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Transcriber modified the original cover and added a map to it, taken from the original book. The modifications as well as the original are in the Public Domain.
BY Harry Clow Boardman
THESIS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
PRESENTED JUNE, 1910
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING.
June 1, 1910
This is to certify that the thesis of HARRY CLOW BOARDMAN entitled The Panama Canal is approved by me as meeting this part of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering.
F. O. Dufour Instructor in Charge.
Approved: Ira O. Baker. Professor of Civil Engineering.
The building of a canal across the American Isthmus has occupied the attention of the world for four hundred years. While yet the sailors who crossed the sea with Columbus were living in all the vigor of mature manhood, a Spanish engineer drew the plans for an artificial waterway across the Isthmus and submitted them to the King of Spain. From that time to this the building of an Isthmian Canal has been a fascinating project in the minds of progressive men. Attempts to build it have resulted in the loss of thousands of lives and the squandering of millions of treasure; and this “dream of the centuries” is still unrealized.