The Hoover Dam, located on the border between Arizona ... Water from Lake Mead passes through large pipes called penstocks ...

The first was a pipe grid used to transport cement pneumatically ... When the government opened bidding on the Boulder (Hoover) Dam project to private contractors, the newly formed entity called ...

plus a tunnel drilled in the 1930s and a platform that sits on top of a 30-foot-wide water pipe. Both on-site guided tours include stops inside the power plant, but only the Hoover Dam Tour offers ...

Hoover Dam is one of engineering’s greatest achievements ... A much higher proportion would still be wet if 937 kilometres of cooling pipes hadn’t been built in. River water was pumped ...

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 ...

The first was a pipe grid used to transport cement pneumatically ... When the government opened bidding on the Boulder (Hoover) Dam project to private contractors, the newly formed entity called ...