The Bureau of Reclamation opens bids for the construction of Boulder (Hoover) Dam and Power Plant. The contract is awarded to Six Companies, a construction and engineering firm made up of some of ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado ... it and helped the economies in all three of those states. "The dam helped build Nevada, as the state felt that building it would bring economic ...

Andrew J. Dunar teaches history at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the co-author of Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History of the Great Depression. He answers a few questions about ...

Walkers can step back into Hoover Dam history while getting some of their daily steps in Boulder City. The town, about a half-hour south of Las Vegas, helped build Hoover Dam. A self-guided ...

Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the US, was created by the building of the Hoover Dam. The reservoir is 640 square kilometres when full, stretching 180 kilometres across the Mojave Desert. Not ...

At the Hoover Dam security checkpoint on the Nevada side ... "All tour tickets also give visitors access to the 1940s original exhibit building across the street from the visitor center ...

The Hoover Dam captures water from the Colorado ... it and helped the economies in all three of those states. "The dam helped build Nevada, as the state felt that building it would bring economic ...