The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

Remember when humans could build stuff? Like, "Hey, let's slam 4 million cubic yards of concrete between two canyon walls" ...

The most dangerous phase of Hoover Dam's construction was building the diversion tunnels, two on each side of the Colorado River. Blasting holes 56 feet in diameter, three-quarters of a mile ...

To help them achieve that goal, the government recently announced plans to build the biggest hydropower dam in the ... like Three Gorges or the Hoover Dam. Instead, four 12.4-mile (20-kilometer) ...

THE completion, just announced, of the great concrete structure originally known as the Boulder Dam, but afterwards officially designated the Hoover Dam, across the Colorado River in Black Canyon ...

Today, the Hoover Dam remains a National Historic Landmark ... Thousands of workers flocked to Black Canyon to build what was then called Boulder Dam. The project provided desperately needed ...

It will be the third longest in length, dwarfing the Hoover Dam and changing the lives of ... of states shifted funding to immediate building needs. Then, environmental concerns and interstate ...

Getty Images Designed by Gordon Kaufmann, the architect behind the Los Angeles Times building and the Hoover Dam, the H-shaped mansion spans roughly 37,000 square feet. Getty Images Hearst lived ...