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Author : Matt Mullins
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602796959
This title discusses how damns are built, including engineering, design and construction.
Author : Matt Mullins
Publisher : Cherry Lake Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 160279488X
This title discusses how damns are built, including engineering, design and construction.
Author : Vicky Franchino
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602796911
This title discusses how tunnels are built, from planning and excavation to construction to site design.
Author : Matt Mullins
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602796966
This title discusses how sports stadiums are built, including engineering, design and construction.
Author : Matt Mullins
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602796942
This title discusses how schools are built, including engineering, design and construction.
Author : Matt Mullins
Publisher : Cherry Lake
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781602796935
This title discusses how airports are built, from runway design and construction to terminal and security.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Mississippi River
ISBN : NYPL:33433087575415
Author : Amadeo M. Rea
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816534296
Winner of the Society for Economic Botany's Klinger Book Award, this is the first complete ethnobotany of the Gila River Pima, presented from the perspective of the Pimas themselves.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1924
Category : Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)
ISBN : UOM:39015067182363
Author : Andrew J. Dunar,Dennis Mcbride
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874173833
Andrew J. Dunar and Dennis McBride skillfully interweave eyewitness accounts of the building of Hoover Dam. These stories create the richest existing portrait of the building of Hoover Dam and its tremendous effect on the lives of those involved in its creation: the gritty, sometimes grisly realities of living in cardboard boxes and tents during several of the hottest Southern Nevada summers on record; the fearsome carbon monoxide deaths of tunnel builders who, it was claimed, had died of "pneumonia"; the uproarious life of nearby Las Vegas versus the tightly controlled existence of the workers in the built-overnight confines of Boulder City; and of course the astounding accomplishment of building the Dam itself and completing the task not only early but under budget!
Author : David P. Billington,Donald C. Jackson,Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0160728231
Explores the story of Federal contributions to dam planning, design, and construction.
Author : Marlee Richards
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781476541822
"Explains the Johnstown Flood, including its chronology, causes, and lasting effects"--
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2360 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031641866
Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1505372771
*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.
Author : Ray Lyman Wilbur,United States. Department of the Interior,Elwood Mead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Dams
ISBN : UOM:39015020909514