Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-code 42-18022994 Bluebird K7 at Coniston Water

Bluebird K7 at Coniston Water

A collector of second-hand satin

On a platform to the right is a gesticulating figure

Archimedes is popularly supposed to have shouted Eureka on discovering that the water rose as he got into the bath: the principle of upthrust on a floating body

he proposed that it should also be made a criminal offence to bribe voters

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and entrepreneur mb-code 42-18022994 Bluebird K7 at Coniston WaterFerdinand 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