Present Status of the Panama Project
Philadelphia: American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1908. Reprinted from THE ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science for January, 1908. Wraps. The format is approximately 6.75 inches and 9.75 inches. Pencil notation on front cover. Pagination is 12-35, plus covers. Tabular data. Note. Mining staining at top edge. The United States took over the project on May 4, 1904, and opened the canal on August 15, 1914. In December of 1889, twenty-two civic-minded scholars met to form the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The Academy aimed to synthesize and advance research that addressed social challenges that might be addressed with more effective policy. The Academy included a broad array of social science disciplines. Casting social science as an interdisciplinary enterprise in service of practical policy-making was a timely goal. Many of the original members were associated with the University of Pennsylvania, but others came from across the country and around the globe. The Academy’s founders created a democratic institutional system to ensure both the success and transparency of the organization. From its inception, the Academy’s Board of Directors has included eminent scholars, former Senators, philanthropists, successful businessmen and university presidents. For more than 125 years, the Academy’s flagship journal, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, has brought together public officials and scholars from across the disciplines to tackle issues ranging from racial inequality and intractable poverty to the threat of nuclear terrorism. Henry Larcom Abbot (August 13, 1831 – October 1, 1927) was a military engineer and career officer in the United States Army. Abbot attended West Point and graduated second in his class (which included Jeb Stuart and G. W. Custis Lee) with a degree in military engineering in 1854. He initially wanted to join the Artillery, but shortly after graduation, a classmate convinced him to choose the Engineers. He conducted several scientific studies of the Mississippi River with captain, later Major General Andrew A. Humphreys. He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War and was appointed brevet brigadier general of volunteers for his contributions in engineering and artillery. In 1866 he received additional brevet appointments as major general of volunteers and brigadier general in the Regular Army. In January 1865, General Alfred H. Terry requested General Abbot accompany his expeditionary force to Fort Fisher. Abbot commanded a provisional brigade of siege artillery during the successful Second Battle of Fort Fisher. He created the army's Engineer School of Application there, and served on numerous boards, including the Board on the Use of Iron in Permanent Defenses, the Board of Engineers for Fortifications, the Gun Foundry Board, the Board on Fortifications and Other Defenses, and the Board of Ordnance and Fortifications. Abbot's influence can be seen in many facets of the coast defense systems of the United States of that period, particularly in the submarine mine system, and in the use of seacoast mortars. Abbot advocated the massing of 16 mortars in 4 sets of 4, which would fire simultaneously at the enemy warships. The plan became known as the "Abbot Quad". After his retirement, After his retirement from the Army, Abbot continued to work as a civil engineer and was employed as a consultant to Comité Technique and Comité Statutaire for the locks on the Panama Canal between 1897 and 1900. He was appointed to the Board of Consulting Engineers by Theodore Roosevelt and served between 1905 and 1906 after the Americans took control of building the canal. He was given the task to prepare plans for canal construction and was able to convince Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft to approve a lock canal rather than a sea-level canal. In 1915, he was part of the Panama Canal Slide Committee. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1863. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Panama Canal, Canal Zone, Civil Engineering, Isthmus, Chagres River, Annual Flow, Feet per Second, Climate, Rainfall, Waterway, Locks, Gatun, Shipping, Goethals, Gorgas, Navigation, Construction, Project Management, La Boca, Pedro Miguel, Excavation
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