Thomé de gamond m engineer (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 90pp, text in French, fold out colour map, paper covered boards, cloth spine. Foxing to contents, the boards a little scuffed & worn, otherwise a very good copy. The idea of building a canal across Nicaragua to link the Altantic and Pacific Oceans has been around for hundreds of years. Although various schemes have been proposed over the years none have (yet) come to fruition. This, the first serious proposal for a canal, was put forward in 1858 by the French journalist and entrepreneur M Felix Belly and French engineer M Thomé de Gamond. Despite the proposal being enthusiastically received and supported, the canal was never built. Thomé de Gamond was well known for his idea of building a railway tunnel under the English Channel which he pursued with vigour for much of his life, but this too ended in failure.…