America’s Greatest Engineering Projects: The Construction History of the Transcontinental Railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Hoover Dam

Charles River Editors

The Transcontinental Railroad, laid across the United States during the 1860s, remains the very epitome of contradiction. On the one hand, it was a triumph of engineering skills over thousands of miles of rough terrain, but on the other hand, it...

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Opening Credits

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Introduction

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This was going to make money

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Hell on wheels

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The origins of the panama canal

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Working on the canal

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The promise of victory

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A vision in the desert

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Thinking in giant terms

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Ending Credits

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