said by Msradell:Great Document! We've visited Hoover dam several times and I'm always fascinated when reading about the construction techniques that were employed during the construction. We are fortunate enough to have visited before they severely restricted visitor access after 9/11 and took the tour of the construction tunnels inside of the actual dam!
The era it was built in also makes it even more impressive. Even today it is regarded as an engineering marvel even against bigger dams... And it was built without computers and half the methods were not proven because they had never been done before on large scale. Yet it still stands and could possibly out last far newer ones like the far larger 3 gorges in China.