Hoover Dam [videorecording] / written and produced by Luke Ellis, Richard Jones ; producer, Bruce Nash ; produced by Actuality Productions, Inc.
Ellis, Luke.; Jones, Richard.; Nash, Bruce M.; Raphael, Max.; Actuality Productions.; History Channel (Television network)
2007
TC557.5.H6 H666 2007
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Title Hoover Dam [videorecording] / written and produced by Luke Ellis, Richard Jones ; producer, Bruce Nash ; produced by Actuality Productions, Inc.
Uniform Title Modern marvels (Television program)
ISBN 0767097726 (container)
9780767097727 (container)
0767097165 (boxed set)
9780767097161 (boxed set)
Imprint [New York] : A & E Television Networks : New Video [distributor], c2007.
Language English
Description 1 videodisc (44 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Call Number TC557.5.H6 H666 2007
Distributor No. AAE-77267 A & E Television Networks (container)
AAE-77208 A & E Television Networks (boxed set)
Summary 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.
Note 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.
System Details Note DVD.
Added Author Ellis, Luke.
Jones, Richard.
Nash, Bruce M.
Raphael, Max.
Added Corporate Author Actuality Productions.
History Channel (Television network)
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > DVDs
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