Panama Canal project

Europe soybean oils used in soaps glycerin sought for making explosives for Panama Canal project and printer s inks oil additionally used in rubber substitutes and linoleum flooring. 

Eiffel was consumed by his milieu. Charged with corruption in the scandal surrounding Ferdinand de Lesseps s (1805-1894) failed Panama Canal project, he withdrew from commercial life, spending his last years studying aerodynamics, ever inquisitive. ... 

William Allan received edueation from Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, from where he graduated both as BS and MS in eivil engineering. He was then at the City College (today s City University CUNY) in New York from 1933, was appointed professor of civil engineering and took over from 1947 to 1970 as Dean of its Teehnology Sehool. He in addition served as engineering eonsultant on many hydraulic projects and authored works in fluid mechanics. He was a member of the Ameriean Soeiety of Civil Engineers ASCE and winner of its J.C. Stevens Award in 1950 for a diseussion on the Panama Canal paper. He was also a eo-winner of the 1948 Normal Medal. 

Allan, W. (1949). Discussion of Panama Canal The sea-level project, a symposium. Trans. ASCE WA 841-845. 

Wilson Valentine Binger his received education at Harvard University, from where he graduated with an AB degree in 1938, and an MS in civil engineering in 1939. After World War 11, he was foundation and soil engineer on dams in Venezuela and Argentina, as also on the Sea Level project of Panama Canal. 

Lee, C.A., Bowers, C.E. (1949). Panama Canal - The sea-level project Ship performance in restricted channels. Trans. ASCE 114 685-713 114 893-895. 

He was first responsible for planning of parts of the New York subway and then was in charge of special studies for construction of the Panama Canal. In the 1910s he was in charge of the location and then the construction of the Truckee-Carson Irrigation Project in Nevada, the first project of the US Reclamation Service. Other work in the western US included the design and construction of the Swift Dam, Valier MT, at the time the highest rock-fill dam worldwide. 

Hawkes, Nigel. Structures TheWay Thin Are Built. 1990. Reprint. New brk Macmillan, 1993. Discusses many weU-known civil engineering projects. Chapter 4 contains information about seventeen projects, including the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal, and the Dutch Delta Plan. Contains illustrations and discussion of the effect of the projects. 

When the United States entered the war the long-standing Panama Canal screening project was immediately revived. At the time, the smoke pot was the only screening munition available and it required too many men to make a Panama smoke installation feasible. The stationary generator proved more satisfactory, and, as a consequence, Lt. Gen. Frank M. Andrews, Caribbean Defense Command, recommended that plans for screening in the Department be implemented as soon as possible. By i January 1943 two smoke generator companies had... 

Many of the megaengineering projects constructed throughout human history have left us with immense and spectacular features on the Earth s landscape. The Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China, the Panama Canal and BurJ Dubai all offer visually unforgettable reminders of the feats that can be accomplished by the... 

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