How Did They Build That Dam
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How Did They Build That Dam
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Author : Matt Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2009-08-01
How Did They Build That Dam written by Matt Mullins and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title discusses how damns are built, including engineering, design and construction.
How Did They Build That Tunnel
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Author : Vicky Franchino
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2009-08-01
How Did They Build That Tunnel written by Vicky Franchino and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title discusses how tunnels are built, from planning and excavation to construction to site design.
How Did They Build That Stadium
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Author : Matt Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2009-08-01
How Did They Build That Stadium written by Matt Mullins and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title discusses how sports stadiums are built, including engineering, design and construction.
How Did They Build That School
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Author : Matt Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2009-08-01
How Did They Build That School written by Matt Mullins and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title discusses how schools are built, including engineering, design and construction.
The Construction Of Hoover Dam
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Author : Ray Lyman Wilbur
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
The Construction Of Hoover Dam written by Ray Lyman Wilbur and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Dams categories.
The Hoover Dam
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2014-12-12
The Hoover Dam written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-12 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the project written by workers and their family members *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "This morning I came, I saw, and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind...Ten years ago the place where we gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert. In the bottom of the gloomy canyon whose precipitous walls rose to height of more than a thousand feet, flowed a turbulent, dangerous river...The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. And the transformation wrought here in these years is a twentieth century marvel." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 30, 1935 During the 1930s, at the height of the Great Depression, thousands of workers began work on the Hoover Dam, built in the Black Canyon, which had been cut by the powerful Colorado River. The Colorado River was responsible for the Grand Canyon, and by the 20th century, the idea of damming the river and creating an artificial lake was being explored for all of its potential, including hydroelectric power and irrigation. By the time the project was proposed in the 1920s, the contractors vowing to build it were facing the challenge of building the largest dam the world had ever known. As if that wasn't enough, the landscape was completely unforgiving, as described by the famous explorer John Wesley Powell generations earlier: "The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock--cliffs of rock, tables of rock, plateaus of rock, terraces of rock, crags of rock--ten thousand strangely carved forms...cathedral shaped buttes, towering hundreds or thousands of feet, cliffs that cannot be scaled, and canyon walls that shrink the river into insignificance, with vast hollow domes and tall pinnacles and shafts set on the verge overhead; and all highly colored." The engineering that went into the Hoover Dam was not just dangerous but unprecedented, to the extent that the Hoover Dam relied on building methods that had never been proven effective on such a giant scale. The project also had to employ tens of thousands of people in often dangerous working conditions, which resulted in scores of deaths. At the same time, however, the large number of men that traveled to work on the project helped turn Las Vegas, a nearby small desert town in Nevada, into Sin City. Despite all the difficulties, the Hoover Dam was completed on time, and President Roosevelt summed up just how impressive the accomplishment was in his speech dedicating the site in 1935: "We are here to celebrate the completion of the greatest dam in the world, rising 726 feet above the bedrock of the river and altering the geography of a whole region: we are here to see the creation of the largest artificial lake in the world-115 miles long, holding enough water, for example, to cover the whole State of Connecticut to a depth of ten feet; and we are here to see nearing completion a power house which will contain the largest generators and turbines yet installed in this country, machinery that can continuously supply nearly two million horsepower of electric energy." The Hoover Dam: The History and Construction of America's Most Famous Engineering Project chronicles the construction of America's most famous dam. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about the Hoover Dam like never before, in no time at all.
How Did They Build That Airport
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Author : Matt Mullins
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2009-08-01
How Did They Build That Airport written by Matt Mullins and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
This title discusses how airports are built, from runway design and construction to terminal and security.
Colossus
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Author : Michael Hiltzik
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2010-05-20
Colossus written by Michael Hiltzik and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-20 with History categories.
As breathtaking today as the day it was completed, Hoover Dam not only shaped the American West but helped launch the American century. In the depths of the Great Depression it became a symbol of American resilience and ingenuity in the face of crisis, putting thousands of men to work in a remote desert canyon and bringing unruly nature to heel. Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Michael Hiltzik uses the saga of the dam’s conception, design, and construction to tell the broader story of America’s efforts to come to grips with titanic social, economic, and natural forces. For embodied in the dam’s striking machine-age form is the fundamental transformation the Depression wrought in the nation’s very culture—the shift from the concept of rugged individualism rooted in the frontier days of the nineteenth century to the principle of shared enterprise and communal support that would build the America we know today. In the process, the unprecedented effort to corral the raging Colorado River evolved from a regional construction project launched by a Republican president into the New Deal’s outstanding—and enduring—symbol of national pride. Yet the story of Hoover Dam has a darker side. Its construction was a gargantuan engineering feat achieved at great human cost, its progress marred by the abuse of a desperate labor force. The water and power it made available spurred the development of such great western metropolises as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Denver, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, and San Diego, but the vision of unlimited growth held dear by its designers and builders is fast turning into a mirage. In Hiltzik’s hands, the players in this epic historical tale spring vividly to life: President Theodore Roosevelt, who conceived the project; William Mulholland, Southern California’s great builder of water works, who urged the dam upon a reluctant Congress; Herbert Hoover, who gave the dam his name though he initially opposed its construction; Frank Crowe, the dam’s renowned master builder, who pushed his men mercilessly to raise the beautiful concrete rampart in an inhospitable desert gorge. Finally there is Franklin Roosevelt, who presided over the ultimate completion of the project and claimed the credit for it. Hiltzik combines exhaustive research, trenchant observation, and unforgettable storytelling to shed new light on a major turning point of twentieth-century history.
Mississippi River Impounding Of Water Above Keokuk Dam
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Mississippi River Impounding Of Water Above Keokuk Dam written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Mississippi River categories.
The History Of Large Federal Dams
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Author : David P. Billington
language : en
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Release Date : 2005-10
The History Of Large Federal Dams written by David P. Billington and has been published by Government Printing Office this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10 with History categories.
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.