Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur Size:L: 75 x 50cm Making and using elm tree

Making and using elm tree pumps to drain mines before the days of the steam engine

People fishing in Peerless Pool

'A (Real) German Defeat'

a scene at Smithfield Market with a man leading a woman on a rope in the centre

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur Size:L: 75 x 50cm Making and using elm treeFerdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur, 1875. De Lesseps (1805 1894) built the Suez Canal to enable shipping to pass between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea rather than having to sail around the Cape of Good hope, completing the project in 1869. In 1880 he then went on to make the first attempt at building a canal to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans across the Isthmus of Panama. A combination of the difficult terrain, a