The Engineering That Built the World
The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
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1.Race for the Railroad
9.010-10-202163mTwo rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, stop at nothing to best each other.
2.Liberty Rising
8.017-10-202163mA little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on a 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and erect it on U.S. soil.
3.Road Warriors
8.024-10-202163mTwo master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history--m...
4.The Panama Canal
31-10-2021Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $...
5.Race to the Underground
8.007-11-202163mAfter the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America. But being first will me...
6.Cable Across the Sea
8.014-11-202160mA century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest o...
7.Battle of the Bridges
21-11-2021Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longe...
8.The Hoover Dam
9.021-11-202162mA hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bringing much needed water to the arid American West....
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