The Gota Canal is the biggest infrastructure project ever built in Sweden. The canal was dug by hand with shovels made of wood. It took over 22 years of 12-hour days - an estimated 12 million man-days of labor - to complete the project.
von Platen, Baltzer
AleN Gothenburg State: Västra Götaland County Zip: Country: Sweden Website: http://www.asce.org/Project/Gota-Canal/ Creator: von Platen, Baltzer, Telford, Thomas
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Gota Canal
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1810 to 1832
1998
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The Gota Canal is the biggest infrastructure project ever built in Sweden. The canal was dug by hand with shovels made of wood. It took over 22 years of 12-hour days - an estimated 12 million man-days of labor - to complete the project.
The Gota (pronounced yeu-ta) Canal is a 347-…
