Blood, concrete, and dynamite: Building the Hoover Dam - Alex Gendler

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Dig into the engineering of the Hoover Dam, a concrete arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River that supplies water to the US southwest.
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In the early 20th century, the US had expanded from coast to coast, but many cities in the southwest still lacked reliable water sources. The Colorado River's erratic flow and frequent floods made it unreliable for agriculture, and the region’s growing cities needed more energy. So the government decided to build a massive hydroelectric dam. Alex Gendler details the creation of the Hoover Dam.
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@JaybeePenaflor 2 года назад

The Hoover Dam is one of the most iconic feats of engineering in the US. It's still quite amazing despite being completed almost 100 years ago.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@ПётрЛубберс 2 года назад

@@mohammadbashuri6309 I could help

@JUSTiNSWORLD 2 года назад

I Visited The EMPTY Hoover Dam 😳 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PVnNYvz614k.html

@jamiehughes5573 Год назад

Bot

@-socialcredit 2 года назад

I've been to Hoover Dam before. Weird that it had so many Roman cosplayers, Californian rangers, and robots with guard screen faces fighting each other though

@gavinlopez6258 2 года назад

I knew there was going to be a New Vegas reference

@tomasmacak4603 2 года назад

Im suprised there is So little od them

@yesman6533 2 года назад

Wow! I still cant believe the've made Hoover Dam into a real thing!

@ED-yy4te 2 года назад

I can't believe you're real too.

@TheLethargicWeirdo985 2 года назад

Love how you punted General Oliver off of it too. Truly was a beautiful sight to behold

@tomasmacak4603 2 года назад

IT took more time than i expected to find a NV joke

@fzrbigman 2 года назад

Hey Yes Man I think the Brotherhood of Steel is pretty chill and I want them to fight with us, what do you think?

@Lethal_Spoon 2 года назад

damnit, i foresaw this

@ShortHax 2 года назад

Wow, they had to work so hard to build the dam walls

@crocodileguy4687 2 года назад

Did you also know the earth is round?

@tjj2040 2 года назад

@@crocodileguy4687 pretty sure it was a joke. Pun intended. Lighten up my dude❣️

@krokodyl1927 2 года назад

@@crocodileguy4687 Dude, ru aware that some people have no sense of humor? Check your nearest mirror.

@crocodileguy4687 2 года назад

@@krokodyl1927 I'm dyslexic, didn't see the pun lol

@kejserrige 2 года назад

@ShortHax good one lmao

@brileymoreno4108 2 года назад

It’s always so mind blowing to see what mankind is capable of when some of its smartest plan together. It’s just unfortunate that so many of our greatest architectural achievements have been at the expense of innumerable precious lives.

@brileymoreno4108 2 года назад

@@smeggiamagarwine names of the lost lives or names of the architectural achievements?

@saferabies 2 года назад

I wouldnt be surprised if the chinese wall didn't cost more

@getyogoofyahh222 2 года назад

@@smeggiamagarwine what for?

@suso6425 2 года назад

@@smeggiamagarwine what? Say everyone’s names who helped make the wall in 10 seconds?

@youtubesus3930 2 года назад

its sad but that is life

@herrmungdaal7185 2 года назад

I used to be a mailman and loved seeing this place. Something about the atmosphere, maybe it was the californian rangers that set the scene.

@Cocacolucarasol869 2 года назад

Did you also happened to be shot in the head too ?

@markcrawford5810 2 года назад

And so the Courier, who had cheated death in the cemetery outside Goodsprings, cheated death once again, and the Mojave Wasteland was forever changed.

@person6533 2 года назад

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

@Garuda_XLI 2 года назад

YES! I'm so glad I'm not the only one who immediately thought of NV when I saw this video

@llamingo696 2 года назад

The game was rigged from the star ☠️

@praveenawesome2182 2 года назад

True

@JUSTiNSWORLD 2 года назад

I Visited The EMPTY Hoover Dam 😳 m.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PVnNYvz614k.html

@nardnard1204 2 года назад

So that's why the major factions in New Vegas wants to get their hands on Hoover Dam

@mlgdoritos2315 2 года назад

finally, a new vegas reference in a hoover dam video

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@dorivaldojunior2254 2 года назад

"Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter"

@kostasv6980 2 года назад

I was looking for that comment!

@adzxyz1950 2 года назад

Whats this quote from?

@ananas3760 2 года назад

@@adzxyz1950 fallout new vegas

@praveenawesome2182 2 года назад

@@kostasv6980 yeah

@alexanderveritas 2 года назад

_Vegas will be a shining jewel in the middle of the desert, an oasis of light, a beacon to show mankind the way to the stars._

@duthebestlion 2 года назад

I revisited the Hoover dam years ago. It was a must-see spot for tours. I believe it is still a popular spot that cannot be missed when we visit Nevada. It is impressive how hydraulic engineers 86 years ago managed to design and construct a long-lasting dam of this massive scale.

@ricardomendoza3257 2 года назад

The Hoover Dam is amazing. Americans should pursuing more projects like this

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@scottabc72 2 года назад

Republican congress will not agree to put up the funds

@scottabc72 2 года назад

@@tomatocharro348 Its been one of the foundation beliefs of the Republican party in the last couple decades that money for projects should come from private investments (and of course the resulting profits) not the government. Thats just a basic description of reality. 'Politics' is when you discuss whether thats a viable strategy to get things done.

@trla6505 2 года назад

If they can mitaget the environmental effects, sure

@bradley8575 2 года назад

@@scottabc72 Funny how Republicans are responsible for building America entire infrastructure during most of the 19th and 20th Century but doesn’t want infrastructure improvements in the present. America infrastructure is still in pretty good shape but it’s Aging and needs some improvement.

@adissiusly 2 года назад

Coincidentally, it was just a few days ago that I had a curiosity over dams. Like how do they stop the water before building.

@jamesabestos2800 2 года назад

Well, dam

@JacobLuy 2 года назад

Adish no joke, I was thinking the exact

@JacobLuy 2 года назад

Same thing

@getpriyanka 2 года назад

They close half the river, and build half the dam. Then they open the half of the dam built, to allow flow of water, and build the other side

@adissiusly 2 года назад

@@getpriyanka I guess they build channels besides the river flowing away from it, and get collected somewhere else. So water gets diverted (as said in the video)

@charlottem.1477 2 года назад

I’m always so happy to see others in the comments, who have the same musings about random things.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello sister. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@PlayrR3D156 2 года назад

Wow. When I go there I might need to buy a Dam t-shirt

@varunprakash6207 2 года назад

The Hoover dam is one of the iconic architecture of US Irrigation system Design by building mass hydro electric dam The structure between Great canyon mountain 🗻 Marvellous engineering project on the Hoover dam

@michac.8283 2 года назад

Never forget the battle of hoover dam.

@avriljenifersexton912 11 месяцев назад

The Hoover dam is without a doubt the best and most beautiful dam in the world and that I have ever seen and I salute those who built this beautiful dam they worked harder than anyone ever could

@hellofgaming2149 2 года назад

You forgot to mention the battle that took place on this very structure between NCR and Caesar's Legion

@kode_2005 2 года назад

Yeah. It is the mist important event involving the dam.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@mushroomfrogdude2104 2 года назад

I love the narrator for these videos! He seems like that relatable math or history teacher that genuinely loves teaching.

@trygveevensen171 2 года назад

To be fair, that's like a 0,5-1% fatality rate. Doesn't seem too bad considering the time it was built

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

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@faithnfire4769 2 года назад

When you look at say the Panama canal.. yeah for as bad as workplace safety was at the time, less horrible than one would think.

@honeygracealfonso7035 2 года назад

It took lives to build this massive and magnificent structure. Without these laborers, this dam wouldn't be possible.

@gameplayxms9430 2 года назад

I love the narrator for these videos!

@amriakhsan9208 2 года назад

"Patrolling the Mojave Almost Makes You Wish For a Nuclear Winter"

@perplexingperceptions8888 2 года назад

Love the Fallout series, NV being my favorite.

@Amantducafe 2 года назад

The positive consequences outweight the negative, sadly but a sacrifice we should remember and strive to avoid for the future. Atleast this project of engineering was made with the objective to improve life quality and move society forward.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@unnamedchannel1237 2 года назад

Hoover damn was an essential location in fallout new Vegas, can’t believe they made the damn just cause it was in new Vegas

@Languste 2 года назад

I was there last year, really impressive build! :) Good thing that also the history is put into spotlight today.

@WOICECHAT 2 года назад

Building the Hoover Dam almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

@jukol2040 2 года назад

Ave, true to Caeser

@irbisari 2 года назад

This is it. This is the comment I was looking for

@maikatideibaskapanaumrqlatupa 2 года назад

@@irbisari me too

@KnightSlasher 2 года назад

@@irbisari indeed

@zondor8123 2 года назад

Best fallout game is New Vegas.of course man of culture has to know the dam

@mysteryGuySaysHi 2 года назад

I always say. A video on a dam is always a good video. Dam = good video

@tomasmacak4603 2 года назад

Youre right! Its dam good video

@georgelooney6826 2 года назад

Travel restrictions have stopped me from visiting such a wonderful piece of history. Thankfully I've been able to explore a recreation of the area virtually. Fun fact: Boulder City played a crticial role in securing Hoover Dam from enemy hands once. I think they set a well placed ambush or something like that

@johnnyoliveira6039 2 года назад

Great, now I gotta play Fallout:New Vegas all over again.

@abeharis5770 2 года назад

hover dam is probably one of the most important infrastructure ever built in american history, it's a shame if it fell into the hands of caecar's legion

@dogeking4902 2 года назад

Well it won't be good if the ncr gets it either.

@nishantshukla7255 2 года назад

'Dam'n this is huge 😎

@jamesabestos2800 2 года назад

Dam, Hubert Hover you got a big smoking what you call it bill or something Probably wrong on some things

@heartless4321 2 года назад

This construction caused not one, but two ecocides in the Colorado River Delta in the Gulf of California.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@Christiangjf 2 года назад

What's worst Mexico wasn't even part of the water rights negotiations. 😕

@flahboi 2 года назад

"We shall see how brave you are when nailed to the walls of Hoover Dam, your body facing west so you may watch your world die." -legate lanius to courier

@turperper 2 года назад

the fact that the government built a whole city as a PART of the preparations for this is mind boggling

@lukeernst2101 2 года назад

You can go to the dam gift shop to get some dam souvenirs on the dam tour!

@kirashinji 2 года назад

I can't believe they built this New Vegas landmark

@Antraeon 2 года назад

Many more lives were made immeasurably better or even saved because of the project and the efforts put forth by its workers. Those who are killed in workplace accidents from hard-labor jobs should be hailed as heroes.

@MOSTL314 2 года назад

RIP all those people that died building the dam 🙏

@alexanderveritas 2 года назад

_Vegas will be a shining jewel in the middle of the desert, an oasis of light, a beacon to show mankind the way to the stars._

@aryaaswale7316 2 года назад

It was just a few hours ago I went on an hour long binge of videos on the hoover dam and how it was made and now THIS , this CANT BE A COINCIDENCE!!!! NO fuckin way

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@pi77a15 2 года назад

They made Hoover dam from fnv into a real thing

@aleksandarvil5718 4 месяца назад

LMFAO 😅😆😂🤣

@jimmyadrian8052 2 года назад

The hoover dam is strong that it can survive to 2281

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@georgesavvas6346 2 года назад

I'm going to fight the second battle of hoover dam by myself! no need for the NCR or the legion!

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@ajinkyalondhe794 2 года назад

Merry Christmas Ted-Ed!

@helderlouro 2 года назад

Damn! That's fascinating.

@pinklemonqde. 2 года назад

In Vegas (kinda) there’s the dam, but there’s also the museum; i went there once and it showed workers and their causes of death, most being falling. That is just scary.

@zekramnordran9526 2 года назад

My last visit was pretty wild, there were Cowboys, Romans and Robots fighting all over the place

@LucidDreamer54321 2 года назад

"Some cities lacked reliable water sources." So then there shouldn't have been cities there.

@ferminortiz5772 2 года назад

Impressive structure. I have the chance to see this marvel on my way to Arizona canyon. Amazing,

@benjamindavis4348 2 года назад

“The time is fast approaching when my Legion will assault the great dam and invade the West.”

@mercedezlucero6792 2 года назад

Why did this video make me want to cry 😭 watching it was lowkey a whirlwind of emotions.

@markjade3587 2 года назад

Huh..... I've always questioned how a damn is made,but I never had the time to search it up,I've already expected the many deaths and the conditions the workers has to face,but knowing how this damn was made is so fascinating to me,wow

@EkardRimidalv 2 года назад

Hehe "Damn"

@yourowndealer 2 года назад

Damn Dam

@sjzz 2 года назад

Big ups for these Men.

@galperwas6919 2 года назад

Finally, quality video with the metric system!

@darkmatter6525 2 года назад

*casually saves falling person by swinging*

@mosin_boi Год назад

The biggest heroes of the modern world often go underappreciated and unknown. Rest in peace to the men who died to build the modern world.

@hgbugalou 2 года назад

I was a dam builder across the river deep and wild where steel and water did collide a place called Boulder' on the wild Colorado I slipped and fell into the wet concrete below They buried me in the great tomb that knows no sound but I am still around...

@anonymousdude2550 2 года назад

Sir, oh my dear sir❤️ Thanks Ted Ed for taking along this journey.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@sravanboi4205 2 года назад

You should make a video about Mullaperiyar dam. A dam located in the southern part of India made out with a large portion of it consisting of just sugar and jaggery.

@Inkyminkyzizwoz 2 года назад

So now you've covered three of the entries that were in the BBC's Seven Wonders of the Industrial World series - the others are the Transcontinental Railroad, the London sewers, the Bell Rock Lighthouse and the SS Great Eastern

@alameenbalogun7113 2 года назад

I was always so curious how a dam was made, and nice soundtrack btw

@carolineallen2658 2 года назад

This was very interesting to learn.

@ongayazycreed5907 2 года назад

Good dam, mate!

@kirbymarchbarcena 2 года назад

Q: I wonder what Hoover's reaction that a dam was named after him at the cost of so many lives, a town, and a lot of resources? A: He probably said "Damn".

@alparslankorkmaz2964 2 года назад

Nice video.

@Troy-ol5fk 6 месяцев назад

Great animation

@retroAutomaton28 2 года назад

Patrolling the mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter

@lincolngiles9150 2 года назад

Never mentions the NCR's control.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@blackkakari 2 года назад

I can't believe Caesar wanted to take the Hoover Damn from the NCR only to destroy it. What a waste.

@MrSpy-jo4je 2 года назад

I need a mini drama series made about this so I can binge watch it on Netflix

@gameingplayer1352 2 года назад

Dam that's interesting

@SinCityRaider81 2 года назад

I just seen the Hoover Dam. On one side it goes back an hour, and the other ahead. It was sad to see how low the water level was. A guesstimate would be by 60 plus feet.

@mohammadbashuri6309 2 года назад

hello brother. I need your help. In this video, I want to make 10 questions. Can you help me with four choices

@zjefvaneetvelde3953 2 года назад

I'm confused by the statement that the dam was the highest man made structure of it's time. Isn't the Eifel tower like more then 300m tall? And I think that was build around 1890, somthing like that.

@mariannenannerlmozart8179 2 года назад

Dam boy!

@JJ-si4qh 2 года назад

Worth it

@bruh-bn3ni 2 года назад

Damn this is cool...

@dambardiprawal7129 2 года назад

Excellent understand

@cz8120 2 года назад

I wonder if the dam snack bar sells dam French fries? And if I am able to go to the dam bathroom or buy a dam T-shirt?

@confusedaatmalite3402 2 года назад

Amazing

@davidcorruthers78 2 года назад

A feat of American ingenuity and determination

@mojtaliph8725 2 года назад

جزيل الشكر للمترجمين

@clown3219 2 года назад

2:45 now I know how they build dams

@akuaamaniampongboatemaayia6683 2 года назад

It would be nice if you guys could make a video about lupus

@mopping4600 2 года назад

You guys should make a video on how you make your animations

@skylerbowerbank5847 2 года назад

There seems to be a trending correlation between "great feat" and "many people died"

@zondor8123 2 года назад

I first learned this from Fallout new vegas. And have been wondering the past history it had

@Darkflamecrusader 2 года назад

RU-vid: How was the Hoover Dam built? Me: Probably with materials and labor.

@TheThedisliker 2 года назад

For caesar!

@MasterCivilEngineering 2 года назад

Boost your Civil Engineering knowledge here💯🇺🇸

@YouAndImpact 2 года назад

Great video 👍

@lavliness 2 года назад

new thing to know, again ♡

@oliviawilson1085 2 года назад

Kallanai (also known as the Grand Anicut) is an ancient dam. It is built (in running water) across the Kaveri river flowing from Tiruchirapalli District to Thanjavur district,Tamil Nadu, India , the dam was originally constructed during the reign of Chola king Karikalan in c. 100 BC - c. 100 AD.[3][4][5] It is the fourth oldest water diversion or water-regulator structures in the world and the oldest in India that is still in use.[