Technology - Hoover Dam
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In Black Canyon between Nevada and Arizona on the Colorado River. It creates Lake Mead, still the largest manmade lake in North America--and the dam was completed in 1936!
Black Canyon had been a barrier to travel, but the dam provided an easy crossing of the Colorado and the canyon for the first time. US 93 was routed over the dam, and was the most direct route between Las Vegas and Phoenix, Ar…
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Arizona (to left) and Nevada (to right), USA. Looking south. Under construction, still a year and a half from opening.
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