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🏗️🌊 This animated introduction breaks down the massive #engineering feat of the Hoover Dam. Engineers and historians explain how the structure was built to withstand immense pressure while providing power to the Southwest.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/03/how-the-hoover-dam-works-a-3d-animated-introduction.html

💁🏻‍♀️✨ How do beavers build dams? https://seethis.tv/post/beavers-ecosystem-engineers

#hooverdam #history #physics #water #energy #infrastructure #animation #education #technology #tech #science

How the Hoover Dam Works: A 3D Animated Introduction

When it comes to tourist pilgrimage sites in the United States, the Hoover Dam may not quite rank up there with the Statue of Liberty, the Lincoln Memorial, Mount Rushmore, the Grand Canyon, or Disneyland. But that's not due to a lack of importance, nor even a lack of impressiveness.

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von Feb 22

#dam #hooverdam #photography #photo #lake #desert #mountains #nature

Coprolite9000 - Pixelfed Feb 21

For #saturdaySignage - whatever you do, don't!

#Nevada side of the #HooverDam, July 2013.

#signs #doNot

Laurent Feb 13

Damn, a dam!
#hooverdam #arizona #dam

N-gated Hacker News Jan 20

Oh wow, the Hoover Dam is now a 26,000-year-old space clock? 🕰️🔭 That's right folks, forget Stonehenge, we've got terrazzo tiles pointing to the cosmos! Who knew the Bureau of Reclamation was basically NASA with concrete? 🚀🧱
https://longnow.org/ideas/the-26000-year-astronomical-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight/ #HooverDam #SpaceClock #TerrazzoTiles #BureauOfReclamation #NASAConcrete #HackerNews #ngated

The 26,000-Year Astronomical Monument Hidden in Plain Sight

The western flank of the Hoover Dam holds a celestial map that marks the time of the dam’s creation based on the 25,772-year axial precession of the earth.

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Anne Fuller (Sʼaachtlʼéiḵ)Jan 12

@Karstan We need another trip to Valley of Fire State Park (stayed in Moapa, but would be doable from Vegas) and the tours available at Hoover Dam are fantastic (December 1 through February 27, Monday through Friday, Hoover Dam will close to public access at night from 7:00 PM to 5:00 AM to complete scheduled night time maintenance work requiring road closures.) #HooverDam #ValleyofFireSP

amir2000.nl 🇮🇱Dec 29

Concrete curves, steel towers, and a ribbon of deep blue water.
#HooverDam cuts the #canyon like a clean signature, with the intake towers standing watch.
What hits you harder here, the scale or the silence?
#Nevada #Arizona #USA #ArchitecturePhotography #Infrastructure #Engineering #CanyonViews #DesertLandscape #Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography 3/3

amir2000.nl 🇮🇱Dec 29

Concrete curves, steel towers, and a ribbon of deep blue water.
#HooverDam cuts the #canyon like a clean signature, with the intake towers standing watch.
What hits you harder here, the scale or the silence?
#Nevada #Arizona #USA #ArchitecturePhotography #Infrastructure #Engineering #CanyonViews #DesertLandscape #Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography 2/3

amir2000.nl 🇮🇱Dec 29

Concrete curves, steel towers, and a ribbon of deep blue water.
#HooverDam cuts the #canyon like a clean signature, with the intake towers standing watch.
What hits you harder here, the scale or the silence?
#Nevada #Arizona #USA #ArchitecturePhotography #Infrastructure #Engineering #CanyonViews #DesertLandscape #Amir2000NLStory #CanonR5MarkII #AMIR2000NLPhotography 1/3

Goudomrand Dec 20

𝕌𝕊𝔸 𝕞𝕖𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤 𝕍 - Hooverdam, Nevada 2010
High Scaler Monument, a tribute to the builders of the dam.
In the background the Mike O'Callaghan–Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge, a few months before its openenig.

#dailypicture #archive #usa #nevada #hooverdam #monument