nevertheless found time to survey thoroughly and minutely the Isthmus of Suez for the purpose of cutting the very canal the nephew is now intent on building. Some years ago a few private gentlemen ...

Forty five years after the U.S. first considered building a canal through Central America, the Panama Canal opened to the public. French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps completes work on the Suez ...

The idea of a canal in this region has existed since the seventh century BC, but it was not until the late 1890s that it was finally completed - the Suez Canal, meanwhile, was completed in 1869.