   |
||||
|
|
Buy the "Great Projects" videos and companion book at ShopPBS. |
|
|
   |
||||
|
A Massive Undertaking Roosevelt tapped Antioch college president and engineer Arthur Morgan as chairman of TVA's board of directors. The job was immense—a scattered series of dams, reservoirs and locks on the Tennessee River itself and several tributaries. |
|
 |
||
 |
  How engineers contained and controlled the Colorado and Mississippi rivers. Thomas Edison lights up New York City; Sam Insull brings power to Chicago; and TVA electrifies rural America Constructing the George Washington Bridge Putting a major highway under Boston  |
 |
 |
||
