>The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier, it allowed th

>The canal had an immediate and dramatic effect on world trade. Combined with the American transcontinental railroad completed six months earlier, it allowed the world to be circled in record time. Interesting! That prompted me to look up Around the World in 80 Days, and it turns it out was published 3 years later (1872), using those pieces as part of the journey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Days#Plot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Around_the_World_in_Eighty_Day...