Channel Suez is an artificial satellite navigation that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea between Africa and Asia, across the Isthmus of Suez, the Sinai Peninsula. The channel is in the territory of Egypt .
Its length is 163 km between Port Said (on the Mediterranean coast) and Suez (the Red Sea coast). Allowed to reduce the maritime trade route between Europe and South Asia, it avoided having to go around the African continent. For a better understanding
watch video prepared by a former student of mine, Daniel Hullsmann:
The excavation works channel officially began on 10 April 1859 promoted by Ferdinand de Lesseps French authorized by the Egyptian authorities at the time, who gave free land, quarries and drinking water systems, as well as four-fifths of workers were needed for work.
Its length is 163 km between Port Said (on the Mediterranean coast) and Suez (the Red Sea coast). Allowed to reduce the maritime trade route between Europe and South Asia, it avoided having to go around the African continent. For a better understanding
watch video prepared by a former student of mine, Daniel Hullsmann:
The excavation works channel officially began on 10 April 1859 promoted by Ferdinand de Lesseps French authorized by the Egyptian authorities at the time, who gave free land, quarries and drinking water systems, as well as four-fifths of workers were needed for work.
's how it was made one of the greatest works of engineering in the world for tens of thousands of humble peasants forcibly taken from all regions of Egypt. At first there were no machinery and everything had to be done by hand in an unhealthy climate. According to official figures, killed 20 workers. More realistic estimates set the figure at 125,000 workers killed. The work was accelerated after the introduction of bucket dredges. [1]
The construction of the Suez Canal, opened in 1869 marked a milestone in the history of technology because, for the first time, machines were used Excavation specially designed for these works, with yields up to that time unknown. In just over two years, dug more than 50 million cubic meters, 75 million of the total work.
In 1875 the Pasha of Egypt, because of the country's foreign debt, he released his part of the actions of the channel. In a swift move, the Prime Minister Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria convinced of the need to purchase to take control of the route to India, the richest colony in the UK. An envoy of Disraeli got a large loan from the banker Rothschild House, and thus secured the UK domain of the channel.
The construction of the Suez Canal, opened in 1869 marked a milestone in the history of technology because, for the first time, machines were used Excavation specially designed for these works, with yields up to that time unknown. In just over two years, dug more than 50 million cubic meters, 75 million of the total work.
In 1875 the Pasha of Egypt, because of the country's foreign debt, he released his part of the actions of the channel. In a swift move, the Prime Minister Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, Queen Victoria convinced of the need to purchase to take control of the route to India, the richest colony in the UK. An envoy of Disraeli got a large loan from the banker Rothschild House, and thus secured the UK domain of the channel.
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