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This is a partial list of the civil engineers who helped plan, design, or build canals in Central America during the period 1850-1931

Panama Railroad

• Hughes, George W. Bvt. Lt. Col. Hughes surveyed the Panama railroad roadbed .

Isthmus of Darien survey of 1857

• Michler, Nathaniel - 1827 – 1881 Michler was an officer in the United States Army Corps of Topographical Engineers.

United States Navy expedition of 1872

In 1872, the U.S. Navy Department initiated an expedition to survey a potential interoceanic canal route through Nicaragua.

• Lull, Edward Phelps (1836-1887) Lull led the Nicaragua Exploring Expedition from 1872 to 1873, conducting comprehensive surveys for a potential interoceanic canal through Nicaragua.

Nicaragua Canal Commission (1895-1897)

• Haines, Peter Conover, (July 6, 1840 – November 7, 1921)

Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929-1931

By 1928, growing interest in expanding canal capacity led Congress to pass a resolution calling for updated surveys in Nicaragua to reassess data from 1901. The initiative also explored the viability of adding a third set of locks to the Panama Canal and potentially transforming it into a sea-level waterway.

• Groves, Leslie Richard 1st Lt. Groves Jr. (1896 – 1970) assisted Sultan in compiling the final report.
• Sultan, Daniel I. Major, USACE (1885 – 1947) Sultan was commander of the United States Army Engineer Battalion in Nicaragua. The battalion numbered 25 officers and 295 enlisted men.

References

1. Jon T. Hoffman, Michael J. Brodhead, Carol R. Byerly, and Glenn F. Williams (2009). The Panama Canal: An Army's Enterprise. Washington, DC: Center of Military History. p. 3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. Handbook of Texas Online. "Michler, Nathaniel". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
3. Edward Phelps Lull (1874). Reports of Explorations and Surveys for the Location of a Ship-Canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, through Nicaragua, 1872-'73. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. Retrieved 2024-12-25.
4. Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals (1928). Authorizing an Investigation and Survey for a Nicaraguan Canal as well as Increasing the Facilities of the Panama Canal (Report). Senate Report 771, 70th Congress, 1st Session. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
   • Additional-reports:
     • Senate Joint Resolution No. 117, Statutes at Large, 1929, pp. 1539–1540;
     • Senate Committee on Appropriations, Investigations and Surveys for a Nicaraguan Canal, 70th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1929, S. Doc. 237;
     • Senate Committee on Appropriations, Investigation and Survey for a Nicaraguan Canal, 70th Cong., 1st Sess., 1928, S. Doc. No. 145;
     • Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Investigation and Survey for Additional Locks at Panama Canal and for a Nicaraguan Canal, 70th Cong., 2nd Sess., 1929, H. Rept. No. 2774.
5. ^ Brodhead, M. J. (2013). Wet, Nasty Job: Army Engineers and the Nicaragua Canal Survey of 1929-1931. Federal History, 5, 15-34.

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