Building The Hoover Dam
🏞️ Unveiling the Hoover Dam: A Vintage Exploration 🎥
Step back in time with our vintage documentary capturing the awe-inspiring moments of the Hoover Dam's completion in 1936! 🌊 Join us on this historical journey as we revisit the iconic Boulder Dam, now known as the Hoover Dam, in the heart of the American Southwest.
📽️ What to Expect:
🚧 Construction Chronicles: Witness the challenges faced by 21,000 workers during the dam's construction in the midst of the Great Depression.
⚡ Power Unleashed: Explore the mammoth generators that pioneered hydroelectric power, shaping the landscape of the Southwest.
🌊 Mighty Waters Tamed: See the dam's mastery over the Colorado River, controlling floods and mitigating droughts.
📅 Historical Highlights:
From groundbreaking in 1931 to completion in 1936, experience the triumphs and tragedies that defined the Hoover Dam's early days.
🕵️ Untold Stories: Discover lesser-known facts, anecdotes, and surprising aspects of the dam's history.
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16:40 driver idling back in reverse gear steering with his foot. NO power steering in those days either. (20 yr CDL-A Driver here, humbled) 😳
That double decker bus look really safe the way it was leaning! 😂
Wow The Hoover Dam was an impressive feat of engineering and logistics, especially for the era. Thanks for posting.
@Mrbfgray
7 ай бұрын
This vid could easily be 4X longer just covering the same material with a little more depth.
@phonicwheel933
7 ай бұрын
@@Mrbfgray Agree
@mkay1957
2 күн бұрын
The way infrastructure projects are run now, the Hoover Dam would take 50 years to complete and would probably cost $500,000,000,000, after being estimated at $50,000,000,000.
It would really be interesting to see how many workers would want to remain employed by government-funded projects that included housing, meals, medical provision, and education.
@LearnSomethingNew12345
7 ай бұрын
I think if some thing like the Civilian Conservation Corps from FDR's New Deal was brought back, it would be very popular today.
@Mrbfgray
7 ай бұрын
@@LearnSomethingNew12345 I don't, unless they were typical of today's slacker gov jobs. There's a ton of 6 figure opportunities in the trades because youth are too "good for" anything involving physical activity.
@mkay1957
2 күн бұрын
@@LearnSomethingNew12345If the CCC was run as efficiently as it was back then, then it probably would be popular. But now, government is extremely inefficient and cumbersome, and most people working for it are incompetent and/or don't give a damn. Every infrastructure project now takes years to get going because of studies and reviews required by the feds and states. Then once the project is underway, they forever to complete and costs run several times over the initial estimated budget.
Incredible! Those enginneers did all that without the help of computers. Maybe that's why it was so successful? 😂
Curing the concrete, a profoundly important process which will take 125 years, was most carefully considered. Reports of cracks in the 3 Gorges Dam suggest that the project has been built too quickly. The consequences of a failure will destroy China as a great power!
@mkay1957
2 күн бұрын
Concrete heats up as it cures and can crack if it heats up and cures too quickly. The people who designed and engineered the Hoover Dam knew this would be a problem with a pour this large, so they had pipes placed throughout the Hoover Dam carrying cold water to keep the concrete from heating up. They are still pumping water through the dam all these years later.
They weren't cry baby union workers.