Hoover Dam [videorecording] / written and produced by Luke Ellis, Richard Jones ; producer, Bruce Nash ; produced by Actuality Productions, Inc.

Hoover Dam [videorecording] / written and produced by Luke Ellis, Richard Jones ; producer, Bruce Nash ; produced by Actuality Productions, Inc.

Modern marvels (Television program)

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0767097165 (boxed set)
9780767097161 (boxed set)

[New York] : A & E Television Networks : New Video [distributor], c2007.

English

1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

TC557.5.H6 H666 2007

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AAE-77208 A & E Television Networks (boxed set)

Discusses the engineering and design challenges of the construction during the 1930s of Hoover Dam, one of the world's largest dams, in the harsh climate of America's Southwestern desert. Examines the dam's role in flood control, water supply, generating electricity, and in creating Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the U.S.

Originally broadcast on the History Channel in 1999 as an episode of the television program Modern marvels.
Dolby digital stereo.
Issued as part of an 8-disc boxed set entitled Modern marvels : architectural wonders.
Narrator, Max Raphael.

DVD.

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