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This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how America harnessed two of its mightiest rivers and put them to work for its citizens. The projects--the Mississippi's system of levees and floodways, and the Colorado's Hoover Dam--constitute vastly different engineering efforts. Their ...
Great Projects: The Building of America: Bridging New York
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This episode of the four part series covers the eleven major bridges that unite the islands that make up New York City and connect the great metropolis to the rest of the nation. One engineer was responsible for more that half of them, yet few know is name. Othmar Ammann, who came to America as a ...
Great Projects: The Building of America: Electric Nation
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This episode of the four-part documentary series highlights how electricity became a part of every American's life. In the early 1880's, Thomas Edison succeeded in launching the electric-lighting era; power plants spread to cities worldwide. Most private utilities did not wire rural areas; ...
Great Projects: The Building of America: The Big Dig
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When Boston's city planners wanted to tear down the city's Central Artery and build an underground road, it was determined the existing highway was so vital to the city's transportation that closing it for any length of time was not feasible. Local engineer Fred Salvucci championed a complex plan ...
Ken Burns: The Brooklyn Bridge
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This award-winning program by filmmaker Ken Burns recaptures all the drama, the struggles and the personal tragedies behind this greatest of all achievements of America's industrial age. As this fascinating program reveals, it was the largest bridge of its era, marked by enormous construction ...
