Although the next and final Chief Engineer of the Canal, Colonel George Washington Goethals, earned the nickname "the Genius of the Panama Canal" for seeing the canal to its completion ...
From the original estimate of $135,000,000 as the cost of the Panama Canal the figures have been going steadily upward until the latest estimate, made to-day by Col. Goethals, Chief Engineer and ...
Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the Suez Canal, led the project. His plan called for a sea-level canal to be dug along the path of the Panama Railroad ... Washington Goethals, an Army engineer ...