Going It Alone

Lindenthal reacted with contempt to Ammann's idea, so the Swiss left his former mentor. In a new borrowed office, Ammann began to draw. He was committing his first major bridge design to paper which, if built, would be the longest suspension bridge in the world. Early in 1925, after interminable rounds of meetings and presentations, the legislatures of New Jersey and New York approved construction of a Fort Washington-to-Fort Lee suspension bridge.

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A Tale of Two Rivers

How engineers contained and controlled the Colorado and Mississippi rivers.

Electric Nation

Thomas Edison lights up New York City; Sam Insull brings power to Chicago; and TVA electrifies rural America

Bridging New York

Constructing the George Washington Bridge

The Big Dig

Putting a major highway under Boston