John Cresson Trautwine and the Panama Canal
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All Bones Considered: Laurel Hill Stories #066 - Laurel Hill and the Panama Canal, Part 1
John Cresson Trautwine was a civil engineer who wrote what became the definitive Engineer's Handbook which was standard text for decades; he also predicted that it would be impossible to build a canal through Panama.
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