Special Features
- General Article: Bridge Facts
- Biography: Amadeo Gianini
- General Article: The Golden Gate Bridge and its Environment
- Biography: Irving Morrow
- Primary Resources: The "True Picture of the Situation"
- Biography: Leon Moisseiff
On May 27, 1937, 200,000 people thronged to the newly-completed Golden Gate bridge and walked, climbed, skated or cycled across. After 18 years of struggles to complete the bridge, San Francisco's jubilance was unrestrained.
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Panama Canal
The most daring and innovative accomplishment at the turn of the 20th century.
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Big Dream, Small Screen
A Utah farm boy builds a prototype for a television, but is thwarted by movie studio executives wanting to control the technology.
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Alone on the Ice
In 1934, American polar explorer Richard Byrd became the first to experience winter in Antarctica's interior.
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Grand Central
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
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The Wizard of Photography
George Eastman introduced the Kodak and Brownie camera systems and transformed photography into something anybody could do.
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Rescue at Sea
When two passenger ships collide off Nantucket in 1909, 1,500 people rely on 26-year-old Jack Binns to operate a new technology - wireless telegraphy - to save them all.
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Secrets of a Master Builder
Engineer James Eads tamed the mighty Mississippi, turning New Orleans into the second largest port in the nation.
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New York: The Center of the World
Postwar New York City and the global economic order told through the story of the World Trade Center.
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