A visit to Hoover Dam, that iconic concrete giant straddling the Colorado River at the border of Nevada and Arizona, offers history, power and jaw-dropping views. Visitors can walk around the site ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

which is celebrated in the US as a recession-busting national project but might also be described as the biggest ever concrete-pouring exercise up until that point. The Hoover Dam alone required 3 ...

If you're deciding on things to do in Las Vegas, you may be considering a day trip to the Hoover Dam – the National Historic Landmark that diverts water from the Colorado River to various ...

The troubling milestone at Lake Mead, which is formed by the Hoover Dam, is the latest consequence of the drought plaguing the western US. What happens when millions of Americans rely on the dam ...