Panama canal and Golden gate bridge construciton videos are my last attempt to save this channel. Your support at Patreon www.patreon.com/Sabins is crucial for us. I hope you enjoyed the beauty and engineering of the Panama canal. Hoping for your support - Cheers Sabin Mathew
"Geniuses don't do different things, they do things differently" Instead of digging below the land they raised the ships over the land. Like a fly-over but actually a swim-over/water-elevator.
@@Scandals_trustit's not a grammatical problem. oc said digging below the land like those ships are submarines or something. If they meant digging out the land, video already explained how that failed in 1892, owing to the large rugged hill terrain
I have a question. Is the ship only being pulled by the mules or is the ships engine engaged in the locks to move the ship forward? There seems to be a lot of differing beliefs. Some documentaries say the mules only provide breaking and lateral guidance and are not actually pulling the ship through.
@@ashboy111so hulk was actually helping in the Panama canal construction when he was gone and marvel just fabricated the story of him going to another world. 😮
One correction, the tug boats and cable cars are only there to stabilise the ships, they all go through the locks using their own engines. One caveat is that all the boats crossing surrender control to Panamanian captains who are the ones that maneuver the boats through the canal and then get off at the end. Source: I am panamanian and my dad is a canal engineer
@@potatoking7722 Yes, each ship has its own querks, and if in doubt, the local pilot can consult with the ship's own captain and other officers, who are present on the bridge. (None of these navigation officers operate the ship themselves; but instead command the ship's crew, that operates the controls hands-on.)
I don’t know why I keep thinking that the 20th century wasn’t technologically advanced cause they clearly were! This was amazing and insightful to see how it was done with animations outside of just history textbooks!
It’s interesting to see the history. Where I’m from we have some interesting canals started in the 18th century. Todays design is the 4th version for larger vessel ships which started construction around the same time as Panama. But still we can see the remains of old canals, I love to fish some of these as they aren’t in use anymore.
The only technology that has rapidly advanced directly in the last 50 years is communication. Everything else is a side effectof better, faster communication
It's unbelievable that we live in such times where such brilliant content is accessible on the internet for free. Everything about this video was spot on. Thank you. Hope to see lesics succeed and continue making videos.
Yeah, most of this video was factual although there were some weird wordings. It has to be admitted, compared to Vsauce's nonscientific B.S. or P3wdi3c4nc3rs uninspired river of crap this IS brilliant content!
@@rocksparadox yup, and it's shocking how few views this entire channel has been getting offlate. The channel's owner has requested additional funding via its supporters or its videos will have to stop from September this year. Quite sad :(
And that flexible steel at 10 minutes for the train tracks was interesting too. I didn't understand that part when I was at the museum. It looked like they were "bending" the steel somewhat effortlessly, and it turns out they really were (albeit with some effort, I'm sure). Muy interested. Very interesting. Thanks!
Locks (in general) have to be one of the most amazing feats of human engineering. Water is gonna go where it wants. To be able to control it to the extent to raise/lower 100,000+ ton ships is incredible.
These old canal locks are very common in England, the country was once crisscrossed by canals as the main way to travel, before the steam locomotive. There are paintings of the Thames as chockerblock with traffic as motorways (freeways) are today.
I remember watching a documentary around 2008-09 which showed the construction of Panama and how malaria led to the death of thousands of workers. It was made from an economic and social point of view. You have done an amazing job explaining the Isthmus of Panama from the technical and engineering angle :)
Thanks to everyone in Lesics who put so much time and effort to teach us about complicated projects this elegantly. Truly underappreciated channel, I hope it gets the recognition and support it deserves.
I lived by the Gatun locks for almost two years. I could see the top of the ships from my window as they exited the Gatun locks. Something to add. Some of the U. S. Navy battleships were so wide that it was impossible to keep them from occasionally scraping the canal walls. They had to be partially re-painted after they exited the canal. The U. S. aircraft carriers were too wide to use the canal. At the time, the Gatun lake was the second largest man made lake in the world. I think a lake in Africa is the largest, Lake Kariba. Thanks for sharing.
Panamanians also consider themselves "Americans," along with many other inhabitants of South and central America. I learned this when I went to Panama. Laborers came from all over to help build the canal. It was a major undertaking, but it was an "American" project. It's like when you see a movie, the director gets the credit because he/she is the creative vision of the project and all the other thousands of people that help make the film are signing on to fulfill his or her vision.
Thank you, Lesics, the idea of reconstructing the Panama Canal as shown in the video is brilliant. The animation with Hulk is also fantastic. It's a shame that there is a lack of financial support. Best wishes for the future. Best regards. Ingo 🍀☘️🙏👍
0:00: 🚢 The Panama Canal is a marvel of engineering that uses a clever locking system to lift ships and save them a travel distance of 20,000 kilometers. 4:17: 🌊 The Panama Canal relies on gravity to raise and lower ships, but excess water must be released into the ocean to prevent the Gatun Lake from drying up. 8:18: 💡 The Americans used innovative machines to overcome the challenges of unloading dirt, spreading it, and shifting the railway track during the construction of the Culebra cut in Panama. 11:59: 🚢 The Panama Canal allows ships to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, using locks and miter gates. Recap by Tammy AI
Great video! Absolutely mind boggling how such a massive engineering project was completed so many years ago! Wouldn't this still be a huge undertaking even with today's tech and equipment so what they accomplished back then is all the more impressive
Thanks! I finally understood the mechanism because you mentioned some water is indeed lost while other videos kept on emphasizing how the gates were saving (all) water and ignored the part when the gates adjacent to the ocean was losing freshwater as the ships were getting raised or lowered.
I'm glad you mentioned DaVinci there at the end! It saved me mentioning that he came up with the lock idea. Not to take anything away from your great presentation here, but canal locks were in use for hundreds of years before the Panama Canal. The most famous in the US was the Erie Canal of a hundred years earlier, and that was built after studying the extensive canal network in England. Also, the reason the French tried a level crossing is that they had just finished the Suez Canal, which was a level crossing between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. I guess they thought digging through a jungle-covered mountain range would be the same as flat desert. There are couple of other problems with a level Panama crossing that weren't realized at the time. First, "sea level" isn't the same everywhere, which is why we use "mean" (average) sea level as the standard. The difference between the levels of the Atlantic and Pacific around the Isthmus of Panama is about 12 feet (I forget which is higher), so there would be an enormous one-way current through the canal at all times. Second, a level crossing would mean that the Chagres River would be lowered to sea level where it runs into the canal path. This would turn it into a raging torrent during the rainy season since there would be no Gatun Lake to absorb it. These are not intractable problems, but they add to the difficulty of digging out that much dirt!
Indeed, so many people only know of Leonardo as the pedophile painter of homosexuals (Mon Salai), but he actually did some things to help society...or so they say...
I remember when the company my dad used to work at worked on the design of the lock gates on the new panama canal. It was a huge project, and the engineering his company did was interesting. I also remember some of the issues that arose because there aren’t many places where the lock gates could be built. If I recall correctly, they were built in on of Germany’s shipbuilding docks.
Our engineers were regarded as heroes, around the time of this Panama project. Citizens marveled at how creative and ingenious their solutions to problems often were. And they were in awe of tremendous, complicated projects, like this. It's sad that we no longer feel that way.
Panamanian here. Never in my 54 years have I loved and appreciated so much how you exposed all the naive engineering it took to build the canal and how it works. Thank you!!
What a marvellous engineering! Today we think that by pounding on the laptops, we have become great. These engineers who worked over a century back give their present day colleagues a pause to think over. 👍
I was so distracted by the Hulk moving the land. I cracked up when I saw his eyes glow red 😅 Nice job on the amination and the rest of the history lesson. Good job!
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@@alexissamaniego6423 That is an M.T. claim Bud. The Americans did what was needed. The medical doctors figured out yellow fever was coming from mosquitos. They invented medicine to eliminate it. Then of course all the mechanical parts they made. Like the "dozer blade" to M.T. the flat cars that had one side open. There were so many others.
... interesting that this method of canal building is presented as being invented for the Panama Canal ... but it wasn't new ... the canal system in UK was built in the 18th century using this method ... one flight of locks has eleven gates to navigate ... and it probably wasn't a new idea then ..
Yeah, it hurts to hear that. I live near the lake of St Ferréol, which acts as one of the reservoirs of the Canal du Midi, which was built by France in the 17th century to connect the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean (and thus bypasses the dangerous Iberian waters).
The scale of the Panama canal surely is impressive, but, in terms of invention, the design is nothing original. Only the steam powered tools were new... Were they?
Still impressed, being the pioneer/originator of a certain idea or tech is a thing but using it to the fullest potential and seeing it materialize is another great feat as well
Yes we only use small portion of our brai, another 95% of our brain is used for memory and knowledge. Only 5% of our brain need to watch videos. If you use 50% of your brain, yo will die tiredly, because all of thing in your brain need to realize.
Yes, let's forget the 30,000+ Panamanians who died because of it (French and US input), that near 8% of the country's terrain was badly damaged, and the fact it caused misery and starvation because the local workers were taken by force.
@@indiathylane2158 and let us not forget how many millions more would have died from starvation and deprivation of basic necessities such as medicine if the rapid transit of goods were not available via the canal…
This video also just pretending these types of canals hadn't been around for ~100 years before in Europe. Wow smart Americans, building a water lock! Sweden had one in 1832 but ok. It totally was that the French just weren't smart enough to build something they'd already invented back home and not because they kept dying
The French tried to replicate their success they had on the Suez canal. All desert. No elevational difference as in Panama. The locks in Panama are similar to the locks in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. The electricity needed for the mules is generated at the Gatun Lake dam. The gates are hollow. David McCullough made a video (Nova) in 1987 called," A Man a Plan a Canal." He points out that the canal is like a colossal perpetual motion machine. As long as the rain forests keep the rain coming of course, he points out. Yours is a good version of the canal and the pics are top notch. Thank you.
Hi Lesics great demonstration. If you can add How 3 of the water basins parallel to the locks reduce water loss from Gatun lake by 60% , would have been great
I honestly had no idea there was a lake in the middle. Every photo I've seen of the canal has shown a long, flat, man-made canal with flat landscapes on either side. You learn something every day
Thank you to Lesics for sharing this kind of engineering type video. I love this❤. It was my first experience this channel and i am understand it. At last love you. Iam also preparing for for jee mains but it my bad luck now if I pass I can't appreciate in advance and can't get admission in nit Or iit and other tops .if You less time for me ,if u can do then give me some tips.
it's absolutely amazing to see how this engineering marvel is made , also what if they use something like the "Archimedes Spiral" to lift ocean water in the canal so as to maintain a regular flow of water even if there is no rain.
Some ideas in one head and its implementation make us marvel, but at the same time there're some thoughts in another head that bring grief and misfortune into our world.
Thanks for being an example to rest of us Indians in doing wonderful stuff. Please give your UPI id in future videos so that we Indians can contribute to your organisation. Can you please consider making educational videos teaching science and engineering to school/college kids? You can make a bigger impact than many universities.
“The Americans can up with a brilliant idea” Um, no they didn’t - locks have been around for almost a thousand years, and ones that are hundreds of years old exist all over the world to solve this exact problem. (I’m American by the way - just don’t think the credit should be taken when it’s obviously not an American idea).
@@SomuaSomua Definitely! The US has contributed considerably to progress in science and technology beyond pretty much any other country. I just don’t think we need to take credit for things that we didn’t originate.
@@michaelmj1964 I see your point now and I agree it’s not something we invented I think this guy really over exaggerates the building process of the canal
😂😂😂😂 That's exactly what was in my mind. I agree though, it's a multinational effort. the US of A stole all the skilled workers from all over the world in the process of brain drain and immigration and called them "Americans."
Lock-based canals had been built before the Panama Canal. Notably, the Erie Canal in New York, completed in 1825, used a series of locks to manage elevation changes. Similarly, the Saint Lawrence Seaway and other canal systems around the world utilized lock systems. These earlier projects provided valuable experience and technological foundations for the construction of the Panama Canal.
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He meant US engineers for sure. That’s who engineered it. I mean- Panama is in America and so is Canada and Chile and all American countries in North & South America 😅
The large majority of the laborers along the Panamanian Isthmus came from the West Indies, especially from the sugar producing island of Barbados. By 1907, the labor force consisted of 24,000 men, more than 75% of whom hailed from the West Indies.
Brilliant video! The simulation is so helpful to visualize and you selected several interesting civil and mechanical engineering feats to describe. I joined your Patreon on the merits of this video alone. It perhaps should be noted that lock systems were in wide use before the Panama canal and that both the French and Americans deliberated for extensive periods whether to attempt a sea-level or lock canal. Also, the video sort of makes the French look bad whereas a more accurate understanding might be of the French as pioneers. My read of David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas leads me to understand the Americans were very impressed with what the French had accomplished with the resources at the time.
The panama canal does not lose a full lock of water each time. Because of side basins it only loses 40% of a lock. Practical Engineering's channel has a great video explaining this called "The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks."
Panama canal and Golden gate bridge construciton videos are my last attempt to save this channel. Your support at Patreon www.patreon.com/Sabins is crucial for us. I hope you enjoyed the beauty and engineering of the Panama canal. Hoping for your support - Cheers Sabin Mathew
No worries, nice video and animations!
Can you make a video on how bio gas plant works
i live in another country so unfortunately I can't
You can keep on reuploading videos unless you get a good fund to start again Lesics we are with you !
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I'm done with this re-upload shit
"Geniuses don't do different things, they do things differently"
Instead of digging below the land they raised the ships over the land. Like a fly-over but actually a swim-over/water-elevator.
below the land? the water levels are different digging below is not an option
"Geniuses don't do different things, they do things differently" Well said! I'm borrowing the quote
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@@Scandals_trustit's not a grammatical problem. oc said digging below the land like those ships are submarines or something.
If they meant digging out the land, video already explained how that failed in 1892, owing to the large rugged hill terrain
Thanks! I am a Panama Canal Pilot who appreciates the work you do, Sir. No criticism, just praise.
I hope he replies to your comment.
I have a question. Is the ship only being pulled by the mules or is the ships engine engaged in the locks to move the ship forward? There seems to be a lot of differing beliefs. Some documentaries say the mules only provide breaking and lateral guidance and are not actually pulling the ship through.
Thanks to Lesics for reconstructing the canal just for us
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Yeahhh so useful :)
and thanks to the incredible Hulk for his enormous contribution as well
@@ashboy111so hulk was actually helping in the Panama canal construction when he was gone and marvel just fabricated the story of him going to another world. 😮
One correction, the tug boats and cable cars are only there to stabilise the ships, they all go through the locks using their own engines. One caveat is that all the boats crossing surrender control to Panamanian captains who are the ones that maneuver the boats through the canal and then get off at the end.
Source: I am panamanian and my dad is a canal engineer
Won't the panaman pilots have difficulty manuvering a new ship with different controls?
@@potatoking7722 Yes, each ship has its own querks, and if in doubt, the local pilot can consult with the ship's own captain and other officers, who are present on the bridge. (None of these navigation officers operate the ship themselves; but instead command the ship's crew, that operates the controls hands-on.)
Love the Hulk casually helping with the visuals in this one
i had to do a double take and make sure this wasn't an ad for a scam mobile game lmao
@@AlbanianThrash lmao it did look like that
Godzilla-sized Hulk
And then we have MCU Hulk struggling to stop a Honda Civic 😂😂
I was wondering about that too, then the indian guy showed up and it all made sense
I don’t know why I keep thinking that the 20th century wasn’t technologically advanced cause they clearly were! This was amazing and insightful to see how it was done with animations outside of just history textbooks!
Yeah, I’ve often made that mistaken thought. Quite amazing, actually.
Most of the large skyscraper cities you see are products of the last century..
It’s interesting to see the history. Where I’m from we have some interesting canals started in the 18th century. Todays design is the 4th version for larger vessel ships which started construction around the same time as Panama. But still we can see the remains of old canals, I love to fish some of these as they aren’t in use anymore.
Hi Wunba
The only technology that has rapidly advanced directly in the last 50 years is communication. Everything else is a side effectof better, faster communication
It's unbelievable that we live in such times where such brilliant content is accessible on the internet for free. Everything about this video was spot on. Thank you. Hope to see lesics succeed and continue making videos.
Yeah, most of this video was factual although there were some weird wordings.
It has to be admitted, compared to Vsauce's nonscientific B.S. or P3wdi3c4nc3rs uninspired river of crap this IS brilliant content!
@@rocksparadox yup, and it's shocking how few views this entire channel has been getting offlate. The channel's owner has requested additional funding via its supporters or its videos will have to stop from September this year. Quite sad :(
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@rocksparadox bruh don't disrespect V sauce
And that flexible steel at 10 minutes for the train tracks was interesting too. I didn't understand that part when I was at the museum. It looked like they were "bending" the steel somewhat effortlessly, and it turns out they really were (albeit with some effort, I'm sure). Muy interested. Very interesting. Thanks!
This is what I call teaching. So interesting, engaging, and easy, thank you so much. I will show these to my kids😊
Locks (in general) have to be one of the most amazing feats of human engineering. Water is gonna go where it wants. To be able to control it to the extent to raise/lower 100,000+ ton ships is incredible.
I love all the high-viz vests and hardhats, glad to see they're complying with OSHA requirements.
I'm sure they've had their malaria shots, too. XD rip
Im glad the hulk was able to help out to build the canal
These old canal locks are very common in England, the country was once crisscrossed by canals as the main way to travel, before the steam locomotive. There are paintings of the Thames as chockerblock with traffic as motorways (freeways) are today.
I remember watching a documentary around 2008-09 which showed the construction of Panama and how malaria led to the death of thousands of workers. It was made from an economic and social point of view. You have done an amazing job explaining the Isthmus of Panama from the technical and engineering angle :)
Leonardo Da Vinci invention of mitter locks is also one of the remarkable step in the canal formation
He mentions it at the very end
I'm thankful to this channel for making these high quality animated videos for free. This is indeed an engineering marvel.
Looks like it was made in a sims game.
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Excellent ... Water level rise up & fall concept. Tremendous hard work for Team Lesics to demonstrate this, Hats off to you 🙋♂️
Thanks to everyone in Lesics who put so much time and effort to teach us about complicated projects this elegantly. Truly underappreciated channel, I hope it gets the recognition and support it deserves.
it has 6 million subs?
@@djb5320yeah ikr so how is it even struggling???
Thi is amazing. Kudos to the team that helped bring together this marvellous piece of detailed explanation of the working of The Panama Canal.
I lived by the Gatun locks for almost two years. I could see the top of the ships from my window as they exited the Gatun locks. Something to add. Some of the U. S. Navy battleships were so wide that it was impossible to keep them from occasionally scraping the canal walls. They had to be partially re-painted after they exited the canal. The U. S. aircraft carriers were too wide to use the canal. At the time, the Gatun lake was the second largest man made lake in the world. I think a lake in Africa is the largest, Lake Kariba. Thanks for sharing.
The number of times "American" used could have flooded Panama fully
The laborers from the West Indies never get the credit
@@jacksevert3099yes. They are the harbinger of “exclusivist mindset”.
Panamanians also consider themselves "Americans," along with many other inhabitants of South and central America. I learned this when I went to Panama.
Laborers came from all over to help build the canal. It was a major undertaking, but it was an "American" project. It's like when you see a movie, the director gets the credit because he/she is the creative vision of the project and all the other thousands of people that help make the film are signing on to fulfill his or her vision.
@@jacksevert3099to be fair this video is mainly about the engineering of the canal
Yeah... back then America was king, we made more, built more, invented more and managed more. My how she has been crippled.
I hope this channel gets the support and recognition it deserves to keep delivering such well-made videos
Thank you, Lesics, the idea of reconstructing the Panama Canal as shown in the video is brilliant. The animation with Hulk is also fantastic. It's a shame that there is a lack of financial support. Best wishes for the future. Best regards. Ingo 🍀☘️🙏👍
0:00: 🚢 The Panama Canal is a marvel of engineering that uses a clever locking system to lift ships and save them a travel distance of 20,000 kilometers.
4:17: 🌊 The Panama Canal relies on gravity to raise and lower ships, but excess water must be released into the ocean to prevent the Gatun Lake from drying up.
8:18: 💡 The Americans used innovative machines to overcome the challenges of unloading dirt, spreading it, and shifting the railway track during the construction of the Culebra cut in Panama.
11:59: 🚢 The Panama Canal allows ships to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, using locks and miter gates.
Recap by Tammy AI
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"Excess water must be released into the ocean to prevent the Gatun Lake from drying up" ??
Great video! Absolutely mind boggling how such a massive engineering project was completed so many years ago! Wouldn't this still be a huge undertaking even with today's tech and equipment so what they accomplished back then is all the more impressive
It takes the city I live in 6 months to fix a pothole. The Panama Canal is really an engineering wonder!
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What's scary was how TH-cam algorithm knew what im thinking for the past couple of days without me saying a word nor do anything to show it.
Scary indeed..switch off the youtube cookies/history
Most people don't know that the Atlantic entrance is west of the Pacific entrance. 'A man, a plan, a canal, Panama' is the longest palindrome I know.
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I love that!
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Thanks! I finally understood the mechanism because you mentioned some water is indeed lost while other videos kept on emphasizing how the gates were saving (all) water and ignored the part when the gates adjacent to the ocean was losing freshwater as the ships were getting raised or lowered.
I'm glad you mentioned DaVinci there at the end! It saved me mentioning that he came up with the lock idea. Not to take anything away from your great presentation here, but canal locks were in use for hundreds of years before the Panama Canal. The most famous in the US was the Erie Canal of a hundred years earlier, and that was built after studying the extensive canal network in England.
Also, the reason the French tried a level crossing is that they had just finished the Suez Canal, which was a level crossing between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. I guess they thought digging through a jungle-covered mountain range would be the same as flat desert. There are couple of other problems with a level Panama crossing that weren't realized at the time. First, "sea level" isn't the same everywhere, which is why we use "mean" (average) sea level as the standard. The difference between the levels of the Atlantic and Pacific around the Isthmus of Panama is about 12 feet (I forget which is higher), so there would be an enormous one-way current through the canal at all times. Second, a level crossing would mean that the Chagres River would be lowered to sea level where it runs into the canal path. This would turn it into a raging torrent during the rainy season since there would be no Gatun Lake to absorb it. These are not intractable problems, but they add to the difficulty of digging out that much dirt!
Indeed, so many people only know of Leonardo as the pedophile painter of homosexuals (Mon Salai), but he actually did some things to help society...or so they say...
I remember when the company my dad used to work at worked on the design of the lock gates on the new panama canal. It was a huge project, and the engineering his company did was interesting. I also remember some of the issues that arose because there aren’t many places where the lock gates could be built. If I recall correctly, they were built in on of Germany’s shipbuilding docks.
Our engineers were regarded as heroes, around the time of this Panama project. Citizens marveled at how creative and ingenious their solutions to problems often were. And they were in awe of tremendous, complicated projects, like this. It's sad that we no longer feel that way.
Panamanian here. Never in my 54 years have I loved and appreciated so much how you exposed all the naive engineering it took to build the canal and how it works. Thank you!!
It's a real good day when Lesics turns out a new video. Such great content!
Churns?
What a marvellous engineering! Today we think that by pounding on the laptops, we have become great. These engineers who worked over a century back give their present day colleagues a pause to think over. 👍
I am watching this instead of doing my homework
It’s such a genius piece of engineering
I never knew that the canal worked like this I thought it was like the Suez Canal just a straight line through
I was so distracted by the Hulk moving the land. I cracked up when I saw his eyes glow red 😅
Nice job on the amination and the rest of the history lesson. Good job!
Thank you, Lesics, the idea of reconstructing the Panama Canal as shown in the video is brilliant. The animation with Hulk is also fantastic.
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Engineering at its best.... Awesome effort
They made a machine for every problem they encountered
I dont think so
@@alexissamaniego6423 That is an M.T. claim Bud. The Americans did what was needed. The medical doctors figured out yellow fever was coming from mosquitos. They invented medicine to eliminate it. Then of course all the mechanical parts they made. Like the "dozer blade" to M.T. the flat cars that had one side open. There were so many others.
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... interesting that this method of canal building is presented as being invented for the Panama Canal ... but it wasn't new ... the canal system in UK was built in the 18th century using this method ... one flight of locks has eleven gates to navigate ... and it probably wasn't a new idea then ..
Yeah, it hurts to hear that.
I live near the lake of St Ferréol, which acts as one of the reservoirs of the Canal du Midi, which was built by France in the 17th century to connect the Mediterranean sea and the Atlantic ocean (and thus bypasses the dangerous Iberian waters).
The scale of the Panama canal surely is impressive, but, in terms of invention, the design is nothing original.
Only the steam powered tools were new... Were they?
It's weird that they imply that canal locks are an amazing new technology when canal locks have existed for hundreds of years.
Still impressed, being the pioneer/originator of a certain idea or tech is a thing but using it to the fullest potential and seeing it materialize is another great feat as well
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Wow!! ❤ It's a proof that I only use 5%of my brain. It's really mind blowing watching technology of 1913. Much respect to Lesics for animating this🙏
Yes we only use small portion of our brai, another 95% of our brain is used for memory and knowledge. Only 5% of our brain need to watch videos. If you use 50% of your brain, yo will die tiredly, because all of thing in your brain need to realize.
Thank you so much for your hard work in bringing these high quality highly informative presentations to life. I hope you survive and peosper.
We should all be grateful to the USA for achieving this feat…because of the Panama Canal the entire world has developed rapidly….👍👍👍
Yes, let's forget the 30,000+ Panamanians who died because of it (French and US input), that near 8% of the country's terrain was badly damaged, and the fact it caused misery and starvation because the local workers were taken by force.
@@indiathylane2158 best reply. americans are doing this for showing they are the best, they would do anything for that
@@indiathylane2158 and let us not forget how many millions more would have died from starvation and deprivation of basic necessities such as medicine if the rapid transit of goods were not available via the canal…
This video also just pretending these types of canals hadn't been around for ~100 years before in Europe. Wow smart Americans, building a water lock! Sweden had one in 1832 but ok. It totally was that the French just weren't smart enough to build something they'd already invented back home and not because they kept dying
@thecrazything95 these nothing arguments you guys use are incredible, just because they mentioned the word america
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God bless you and your entire team.
I'm very glad to say that our professors taught us mechanical engineering chapters by showing lesics videos
great job Lesics. Very good animation, and clear explanations.
It is incredible the level if engineering that was needed
The panamanian king melqsam must be proud since then
The French tried to replicate their success they had on the Suez canal. All desert. No elevational difference as in Panama. The locks in Panama are similar to the locks in the Great Lakes region of the U.S. The electricity needed for the mules is generated at the Gatun Lake dam. The gates are hollow. David McCullough made a video (Nova) in 1987 called," A Man a Plan a Canal." He points out that the canal is like a colossal perpetual motion machine. As long as the rain forests keep the rain coming of course, he points out.
Yours is a good version of the canal and the pics are top notch. Thank you.
Mind blowing explanation !! Kudos to the entire team for creating such great content !!
Amazing stuff , never knew about this. Thanks for making this video !
Hi Lesics great demonstration. If you can add How 3 of the water basins parallel to the locks reduce water loss from Gatun lake by 60% , would have been great
14:05 I love this little water slope after the end of the canal 😁 Great video. I love your work.
Funtastic but pains taking engineering.A salute to the American engineers and the entire 🎉management team.🎉🎉
I honestly had no idea there was a lake in the middle. Every photo I've seen of the canal has shown a long, flat, man-made canal with flat landscapes on either side. You learn something every day
Who would have thought we have made stairs for ships , wow
Thank you for the wonderful animation. It will help my students understand the construction process & working of Panama Canal
Thank you to Lesics for sharing this kind of engineering type video. I love this❤. It was my first experience this channel and i am understand it. At last love you. Iam also preparing for for jee mains but it my bad luck now if I pass I can't appreciate in advance and can't get admission in nit Or iit and other tops .if You less time for me ,if u can do then give me some tips.
Wow!! One of the best vidoes I have seen on this channel. Way to go Lesics !!
it's absolutely amazing to see how this engineering marvel is made , also what if they use something like the
"Archimedes Spiral" to lift ocean water in the canal so as to maintain a regular flow of water even if there is no rain.
Wow!!! Thanks alot guys for sharing in lovely detail this amazing Civil Engineering Project!!!😊😊
Some ideas in one head and its implementation make us marvel, but at the same time there're some thoughts in another head that bring grief and misfortune into our world.
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Lesics is back with more power & information, thank you team ❤
Thanks for being an example to rest of us Indians in doing wonderful stuff.
Please give your UPI id in future videos so that we Indians can contribute to your organisation.
Can you please consider making educational videos teaching science and engineering to school/college kids? You can make a bigger impact than many universities.
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Thanks,I am an Engineer ,what is so great about that type of works is you will learn how everything works.
we all know Aliens help them build Panama Canal.
Great video thank you so much!! Props to the American engineers and workers that accomplished so much so quickly! ❤
Don't forget the West Indies! 75% of the workers were from there
"Aliens made it"
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I did not know this is a thing, I love your content and I'm learning something new everytime I watch your videos.
“The Americans can up with a brilliant idea” Um, no they didn’t - locks have been around for almost a thousand years, and ones that are hundreds of years old exist all over the world to solve this exact problem. (I’m American by the way - just don’t think the credit should be taken when it’s obviously not an American idea).
Yet we still have the most Nobel prizes
@@SomuaSomua We still haven’t won that elusive canal building Nobel Prize though. One day though…one day…
@@michaelmj1964 All I’m saying is America can come up with good ideas maybe the Panama Canal is brilliant but we can come up with brilliant ideas
@@SomuaSomua Definitely! The US has contributed considerably to progress in science and technology beyond pretty much any other country. I just don’t think we need to take credit for things that we didn’t originate.
@@michaelmj1964 I see your point now and I agree it’s not something we invented I think this guy really over exaggerates the building process of the canal
I went through the canal 3 times while in the Navy. It was awesome to go through. It stressed our captain.
Why you're using American American American everywhere ?
It was a collective effort and done fabulous job for Better future.
😂😂😂😂 That's exactly what was in my mind. I agree though, it's a multinational effort. the US of A stole all the skilled workers from all over the world in the process of brain drain and immigration and called them "Americans."
Lock-based canals had been built before the Panama Canal. Notably, the Erie Canal in New York, completed in 1825, used a series of locks to manage elevation changes. Similarly, the Saint Lawrence Seaway and other canal systems around the world utilized lock systems. These earlier projects provided valuable experience and technological foundations for the construction of the Panama Canal.
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He meant US engineers for sure. That’s who engineered it. I mean- Panama is in America and so is Canada and Chile and all American countries in North & South America 😅
Ah muy Bueno :-) At 4 minutes into the video is the key part of how it works without pumps, and if no pumps, how is the water replaced. Thanks!
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Best graphics I ever saw to explain this effort! Well done!
In case you didn't notice it was all done by AMERICANS.
You mean to say AMERICANS built it? Oh..
Exactly! They better give us our well-deserved credit!
The large majority of the laborers along the Panamanian Isthmus came from the West Indies, especially from the sugar producing island of Barbados. By 1907, the labor force consisted of 24,000 men, more than 75% of whom hailed from the West Indies.
@@Bullet44 are you from the West Indies?
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I would have neveeeer thought to invent this, wow, humans are really something and I am addicted to this channel.
You’re making it sound like Americans invented lock gates 😂😂😂
The names of these machines are truly innovative and ingenious, in all seriousness great video
Watching this video makes me proud to be an American. Great video.
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Brilliant video! The simulation is so helpful to visualize and you selected several interesting civil and mechanical engineering feats to describe. I joined your Patreon on the merits of this video alone. It perhaps should be noted that lock systems were in wide use before the Panama canal and that both the French and Americans deliberated for extensive periods whether to attempt a sea-level or lock canal. Also, the video sort of makes the French look bad whereas a more accurate understanding might be of the French as pioneers. My read of David McCullough's The Path Between the Seas leads me to understand the Americans were very impressed with what the French had accomplished with the resources at the time.
I like your style of content and how the commentary sounds , good job
This video should watch by American only
This video solves my curiosity about how the canal works. Thanks for the video!
sad if your channel goes away....thankyou for your explanations of our world :)
Best programme about the technology behind the canal I have seen
Excellent video . Very well explained. marvelous animations . Great Work.
Waited for this..Thank you @Lesics
The panama canal does not lose a full lock of water each time. Because of side basins it only loses 40% of a lock. Practical Engineering's channel has a great video explaining this called "The Surprising Efficiency of Canal Locks."
Excellent!
Thank you, this video is vividly illustrated. I wish i could watch some detailed video like this when I studied Geography in high school.