During their early stages of development, heavyweight construction projects ... as the biggest ever concrete-pouring exercise up until that point. The Hoover Dam alone required 3.3 million cubic ...

A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado ... introductory film and include visits to the ...

Saul “Red” Wixson, a worker on the Hoover Dam project ... overhead cableway system employed to deliver concrete rapidly to any point on a construction site. By 1924, Crowe was working as ...

Hoover Dam, in addition to being ... Through his work, Kaufmann transformed the dam’s utilitarian concrete surfaces into modern art deco designs. Recognizing that the dam’s broad, curving ...

The world's biggest dam at the time of its construction, Hoover Dam solved the problem of the overflowing Colorado river with sleek design and brilliant American engineering. The Corning Museum of ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...