Visited the Hoover Dam yesterday for the first time as a trucker 01/11/2021. Most beautiful place & work of art to see.

I love this style of documentaries, this era is my favorite, it gives a sense of honesty, promise and security.

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!!!!!

The victorious narration mixed with god-like sounds and images makes this a truly amazing documentary to watch.

life was great back when anericans were proud to be americans builders and acheivers! this is whats needed!

Fantastic documentary I have visited the dam twice and it is truly remarkable. Thank you for posting. I really enjoyed it 😊

16:02 Worker looking down the massive shaft with no harness as he lights a cigarette....classic

Thanks for the HD version. Love this doc.

“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.....

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.

When a difficulty comes, Americans find their way. Respect from India

The Hoover Dam is (without a doubt) one of the engineering marvels of history-ancient or modern!

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.

Beautiful story about the most beautiful dam ever seen and heard of. I wish I could visit the Hoover Dam. So beautiful just looking at it on video

Simple but detailed documentary showcasing Human ingenuity in conquering nature..

The Hoover Dam is such an amazing structure, it boggles the mind!

What an exciting project to work on in the Depression years if you were an engineer. Great video!

If you go to Vegas I recommend Pink Jeep Tours for the Dam tour. The powerhouse is impressive.

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.

Even back then congress was a waste!!! Took them 10 yrs to finally approve the plan!!! great documentary ! loved it!!

Golden age of civil engineering.......

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

Lmao cannot believe how sophisticated the process of building this was wtf

Outstanding achievement! Thanks for the video

Excellent Colorado River Gifts, Practicaly 60 years after long sleep we in Pakistan restart to build news Dams to save water to have gifts!

Awe inspiring. These were mighty men

Man made wonder , hats off to American Enginers, Tall bridge ,the water comes from long distance Grandcanyon ,so beautiful Hoversdam👍

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.

Documentarys were so much better then. Clear, concise narration aimed at an intelligent audience. Superior soundtrack and photography, as well.

The times when things actually got done, nowadays things never get done or breaks down after a couple of years....

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

If you have any dam questions, please wait till the end of the dam tour.

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.

I saw the Hoover Dam this weekend for the first time. I’m from the east coast. Needless to say, it’s as impressive as it seems

Thanks and respects to all whom so ever responsible from the creation of dam and power plant to sharing the beautiful and worthy documentory.....

This is a great video thanks for posting great engineering at it's best would love to visit it 😊

I went there in 2021. You have to go. Before I die, I want to see it full and I will one day

I HOPE SOON THIS GREAT LAKE WILL BE AS FULL AS IT WAS WHEN THIS MASSIVE DAM WAS CONSTRUCTED!!

Excellent narration. Where's the annoying background techno music?

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.

simply incredible.

The old documentaries are the best.

Thank you, Department of the Interior

Mighty creation by USA in arid region in the era of only " SCALE RULER " , no modern computer / calculator :- The Hoover Dam.

Awesome Documentary♥️♥️♥️👍👍👍

Visited this Dam in sanandreas.. What legend that game was

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!!!

The dam and I were born in the same year. The dam is in better shape than I.

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.

Very good documentary explain step by step.

Superb documentary.

Wonderful. God bless you.

Many many thanks for information about the The Hoover Dam

I enjoyed your dam documentary.

Wow , I been there in 1909 August 👍😊

This is amazing engineering marvel

Very nice documentary. I like this types of technical information.

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.

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.

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.

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.

And..74 years later, I tried to install the DIY sprinkler system in my lawn and it didn't worked.

If you ever get a chance to work on turbines, do it, its the most interesting work a field mechanic can do

Why would anyone dislike this documentary? It's Americana in it's purist form! The hell is wrong with people?!

This is amazing achievement of civil engineering

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.

Beautiful video

good work

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

Wow amazing.

I thoroughly enjoyed this!

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?

Nice video post brother tnq I'm very happy

Wow, they actually made the damm from infra in real life!

Amazing what man can build

Bucket list!!!

Amazing...

Just curious, from where do they get electricity during construction

America is great 👍🏻

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.

This is real clean power

Damn, that Crain dude.

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."

Question for each engineer Can the water be brought back to the dam again?

I have to see the Hoover Dam in 3d

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

Crazy how low that water level is today. It’s unbelievable

Fun fact : this construction job was where hard hats were invented.

all to hide Megatron and the allspark

Awesome

It will always be the Boulder Dam for me. I shutter to even calculate the cost of all the terrazzo flooring they put down.

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.

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

If you go through that door on the stairs you can find the Chinese stealth armor

The cement buckets they used back then have not changed much at all.

Something about the description of N8 ( at 17:13) doesn't seem right. 95,000kw driven by 115,000hp turbine. 115,000 hp x 748 w/hp = 86 million watts. 95,000kw = 95,000,000 watts.

They make the river sound like an evil entity

definitely an Engineering Marvel

So Amazing DAM