To combat this challenge, the Hoover Dam was built not as a monolith but in a series of individual trapezoidal columns, ...

Sitting about 35 miles southeast of Las Vegas, the Hoover Dam spans the Colorado River and the Black Canyon (which separates Nevada and Arizona). The immense concrete structure – which confines ...

Hoover Dam, in addition to being ... Through his work, Kaufmann transformed the dam’s utilitarian concrete surfaces into modern art deco designs. Recognizing that the dam’s broad, curving ...

Saul “Red” Wixson, a worker on the Hoover Dam project, remembered seeing Crowe ... the second was an overhead cableway system employed to deliver concrete rapidly to any point on a ...