The one-armed Civil War veteran ... 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 ...

Saul “Red” Wixson, a worker on the Hoover Dam project ... Crowe lived his early days in New England. While studying civil engineering at the University of Maine, Crowe became intrigued ...

The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado River ... Historic Landmark and has been rated by the American Society of Civil Engineers as one of America's Seven Modern Civil Engineering Wonders.

Hoover Dam is one of engineering’s greatest achievements – perhaps even the greatest. When construction began in 1931, no dam on this scale had ever been attempted. Hoover Dam is 221 metres ...

From the Egyptian pyramids and Roman aqueducts to the Great Wall of China and the Hoover Dam, many of the most ... in world history are examples of civil engineering at its finest, according ...