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Tour the ProjectsBridging New York


Of Steel and Rivets

Of Steel and Rivets

The towers were constructed in sections. Each was built elsewhere and brought to the bridge site by rail, then out to the tower site by barge, then up into the air by crane or a gigantic elevator. The sections were fused together with 475,000 rivets per tower. When complete, each tower weighed 20,000 tons.

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Great Projects: The Building of America



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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
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