John Frank Stevens

By Clifford Foust,

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One of America's foremost civil engineers of the past 150 years, John Frank Stevens was a railway reconnaissance and location engineer whose reputation was made on the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern lines. Self-taught and driven by a bulldog tenacity of purpose, he was hired by Theodore Roosevelt as chief…

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Larger-than-life personalities have dominated much of the story of the Canal since it was envisioned.

Spain’s Charles V, the most powerful monarch ever to reign, believed a Canal would be the source of inestimable wealth and power. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the conquistador of Suez, and arguably the biggest celebrity of his time, tried his hand in Panama to connect the Seas. Theodore Roosevelt bet his presidency on succeeding where others had failed.

Still, it was John Frank Stevens, one of America’s greatest civil engineers, who is singularly most responsible for overcoming the obstacles that nature put in the way to…

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