I watched this on my laptop, powered by electric from the Hoover Dam! I watered my yard today with water from the Colorado, knowing it has passed through the Dam, which gave me the electric to watch this film. MIND BLOWN!!!!!
@@gunsandpoker7432 LOL, in the thirties, it was barely more than 7p years after slavery had to be ended at tbr point of a gun. A black man could get lynched for walking into the wrong town. 20 years after that, it was illegal in some places for blacks to sit in certain parts of the bus or send their kids to "white" schools. What planet have you been living on??
@@gunsandpoker7432 Oh, you're one of those people. I'm just going to disengage with you. I have a tropical beach trip to plan here in Cambodia, so gotta' go. Have a nice life.
I live nearby. In a few weeks we'll take our boat to Lake Mead for the first time this season. I have been all through Hoover Dam. Down to the lowest levels. That was years ago before the terrorists won and our landmarks were closed.
I am surprised this documentary did not discuss how the curing concrete was cooled. I took the tour back in the '90's. During the tour, it was brought up that the concrete had pipes installed to route cooling water through each block. Curing concrete creates heat, and that much concrete would generate lots of heat. As each block was cooled, concrete was sent through the pipes in lieu of water, to seal them.
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Yes, a huge amount of concrete had to be cooled by internal piping. There was no other method back then. Today, this dam was probably made based on a different type of concrete. But I don't know if it would do without complete cooling. Regards!
“Welcome everyone. I am your dam guide, Arnie. Now I'm about to take you through a fully funtional power plant, so please, no one wander off the dam tour and please take all the dam pictures you want. Now are there any dam questions?”
I can't recall how many times I have been through this dam. Many of them in the 70's because my father was in hydroelectric power with PP&l I got to see places no one else has ever seen. simply amazing.....
Well, not to be snarky but somebody must have seen them. You are a lucky guy. I remember driving to Hoover Dam from Montana in 1983 +- I believe we were there approximately in the year the spillway was used. Back then the “scientists” were forecasting the coming ice age. Forecasting is a necessary skill in our world. I wish the people doing the forecasting would be honest about the probability of their forecast. The goal line for forecasting climate has been moving since chicken little.
Made by physically strong men and brilliant men not women. Can you imagine weakling females attemption to do 1/1000000 of the labor-would never happen! The beneficiaries of this hard labor and all other from past world history women is enabling them now to subvert society and flush us down the toilet drain!
Fantastic doc. I have been fascinated by this dam ever since I was a boy. Just an amazing feat of engineering. The true 8th wonder of the modern world.
Two years ahead of schedule. My goodness. What determination? What focus? Not a single day of strike action. Wow. What a generation. America, I salute you.
Impressive and outstanding work of engineering, most kind of you for sharing it with us, blessings to you and your love ones from Puerto Rico Jesús Torres
T went on the dam tour quite a few times when I lived in the area. its truly a must see and experience thing of past great history. Before 9/11 we used to be able to ride our waverunners to the dam and get about 1000' to 1/4 mile of the intake towers. Can't do that anymore and back then Lake Meade was over 90% full. A lot has changed in 20 years
Ah yes, "the good old days", when workers had no rights, indigenous people had no rights, the land had no rights, construction companies were run by the mafia, pay was not a living wage, worker deaths were common, racism was rampant and total environmental destruction of habitat was called "taming nature"....
@@coffinshark Oh yes, considering everything what is called "progress" nowadays, these were not only "good old days", compared to now it was like heaven!
@@Joachim2012 similar here during comunism. can curse on the system but one thing is sure if it didnt came 3/4 of stuff would be never built, dams roads railroads, factories....
amazing. Evoked memories of the old, 1950's Industry on Parade TV show....from back when real products - instead of debt and funnymoney - were actually Made in America.
The mention of the Salton Sea implies that the flooding of this inland lake in 1905 was a natural process that required more dams to be built on the Colorado river. In fact, the Salton Sea disaster was the result of an ill-advised project executed by the engineers of the Colorado Development Company. The history of the Colorado river over the past 100 years has been one of greed, political infighting, over-exploitation and then attempts to repair human misjudgements. The Hoover Dam was and is an engineering marvel, but this doesn't change the fact that the Colorado river has been raped and over-dammed for generations, in order to feed unsustainable cities and agricultural capacity created in a desert.
I noticed that too. They later mention the canal that diverted the river to the Coachella Valley. The canal that caused the Salton Sea and all the doom and gloom they mentioned at the beginning of the newsreel. All that was due to failure at "harnessing of the mighty river".
As it is with megalithic structures like the Great Pyramids, Hoover Dam might be all that remains of another lost civilization, a couple of million years from now.
if we are gone in a couple of milenia there will be nothing left. we will be just a thin layer of plastic in the sedimentation on the bottom of some archeological pit far far far.........far far future. :D no sign of anything all gone. maybe the space junk in the orbit will stay :D:D:D
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Northwoods Living !!! Thanks for pointing out my innocent mistake 🤣🙏🏽😆 It was a minor mistake , just nineteen to twenty. I mean not 1909 but 2009. Hoover Dam was buildt in 1929. 💐☝️👌
Do not be too proud of this technological wonder you have created. The ability to control the river is insignificant next to the power of the force. D. Vader.
Amazing, the men that built this marvel had technology that was so much less advanced than what we have today n they were done sooooo far ahead of schedule that it makes me wonder why today's modern building projects take sooo daaamn looooong!!! And why haven't we built another damn this size yet? We damn sure could use it right about now!!!
Virtually free energy we all over pay for. The cost to build and maintain a hydroelectric power plants and the infrastructure to get the energy to your home or business, is pennies in an ocean of gold.
Hoover dam is very much similar to Bhakra Dam in Punjab, India.. narrow and high. It also has Nungal Dam down streem . I am lucky to walk through dam, one bank to other in year 1969, as engineering student. Seen generator, turbine switch-gear. Later it was stopped due to security reasons.
If they wanted to build the dam these days, it would take 5 times longer. Insurance companies would suck so much money out of it through worker’s comp and liability insurance. Labor unions would make billions on the labor. Prevailing wage would force each worker to get paid $90/hour. And there would be thousands of law suits.
Blame the greedy selfish bastard republicans. They don't want livable wages for us. Republicans say these stupid things and manage to some how get elected. That tells you how people are ignorant and blindly follow the republican dirt back who cause our financial hardships. They fight tooth and nail to make our lives hard to live. So fuck people who keep putting them back in office!
When I see films on the building of these dams, I say to myself "now there is your greatest generation. I have had the Great Depression and WW2 shoved down my throat by parents and teachers. To me, the great dams and the first man walking on the Moon are the best legacy the Great Generation left us.
Awesome dam. Was in it in 1980. A kid back then would love to see it again . I hear now the tours of the dam aren't the same. They don't take you in all inside of it. Anyone know if this is true
The dam is impressive enough by itself. But stop and think about all the support services, they built a town with all it's services, the cable ways, all the industries to supply the parts and materials needed. The transportation of goods and material in manpower. Then add to all of this, the offices and monitoring equipment, the internal machinery that produces the electricity, The dam is not only one amazing feat, it is amazing feats many times over.
I came here because I was reading Dr. Thomas Sowell’s book: Basic Economics. He refers to hydroelectric dams on page 423 of his Government Finance section (chapter 19). Good stuff. I urge you all to read this book with alacrity.
I went on one of the last tours of Hoover dam before they were discontinued due to 9/11 ,I noticed that the generator units had a data plate that said rebuilt in 1997 by GE Canada, I'd like to see if there was any video of the project if anyone knows?
Turban is worn as customary headwear by people of various cultures....A turbine is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work...... just saying
Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture. It consisted of the Henry J. Kaiser Co. of Oakland, CA, the Bechtel Corp. of San Francisco, CA, MacDonald and Kahn of Los Angeles, CA, the Utah Construction Co. of Ogden, UT, the Morrison-Knudsen Co. of Boise, ID, the Pacific Bridge Co. of Portland OR, and the J.F. Shea Co. of Portland, OR.
Can you ask a question .. Hello sir, the smallest turbine, for example. 50 mica The number of meters of water you need per second ... What is the smallest turbine how much is produced in mica
@@butterflyladeda1080 - Diction is the most correct word to use (or simply narration). Dictation is just as good though because it indicates diction (or recorded spoken words). And that's what this narration is/was.
@@wefukthenwo, It's more that worth it, It's a live saving miracle. Hoover Dam STILL provides most of the water and power used on the west coast, it also still regulates the river for the purpose stated in the doc.
