I like to read about big construction projects (see the Brooklyn Bridge here). When you’re stuck in your daily work it makes you think bigger and broader. It revives your imagination. It makes your to-do seems relatively small compared to those big projects. And it’s always a delight to see how inventive, ingenious and in some case, ill-intentioned, our predecessors were. Here’s a short video about the Panama Canal.

History of the Panama Canal - the railroad, the French attempt, the US build and the expansion. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/humaninterests Website: https://www.humaninterests.co.uk Twitter: https://twitter.com/tomblatherwick Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/humaninterests Facebook: https://www.fb.me/HumanInterestsYT Music: "Kings of Tara", "Bright Wish" & "Windswept" by Kevin MacLeod (https://www.incompetech.com), "Acoustic Inspiring" & "Acoustic Miracle" by https://www.hooksounds.com, "The Leave" by MÆSON (https://www.soundcloud.com/maeson-1) via Creative Commons.