Panama Canal Gates

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Nov 29, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 47.

Panama Canal Gates

It is said that the largest gates in the world are in process of construction in Pittsburg for the Panama Canal. Each of the ninety-two gates will be about as high as a six-story building, sixty-five feet wide, and seven feet thick. The structural steel that will go into them will weigh 60,000 tons. These mighty portals designed to admit a world's commerce from ocean to ocean, must withstand an immense pressure of water and possible convulsions of earth. It will take three years to complete the work, and the cost is estimated at five and a half millions.