| Description |
1 online resource (50 minutes) |
| Summary |
An encounter with the most brilliant pioneers of the industrial age. Recreating their stories of burning ambition, extravagant dreams, passion and rivalry as great minds clashed, this programme delves into the history of seven epic monuments spanning the industrial revolution. Using spectacular CGI, the seven stories that are revealed here are: the SS Great Eastern; the London sewer system; the Bell Rock Lighthouse; the US Transcontinental Railway; the Panama Canal; the Hoover Dam; and the Brooklyn Bridge. Over one hundred people died when Frank Crowe tried to tame the Colorado River by building the Hoover Dam |
| Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed March 06, 2019) |
| Performer |
Narrated by Robert Lindsay |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Crowe, Frank T., 1882-1946.
|
| SUBJECT |
Crowe, Frank T., 1882-1946. fast (OCoLC)fst00468673 |
| Subject |
River engineering -- United States -- History
|
|
River engineering.
|
| SUBJECT |
Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061917
|
| Subject |
United States.
|
|
United States -- Hoover Dam.
|
| Genre/Form |
Historical reenactments (Television programs)
|
|
History.
|
|
Historical reenactments (Television programs)
|
| Form |
Streaming video
|
| Author |
Everest, Mark, director
|
|
Cadbury, Deborah, producer
|
|
British Broadcasting Corporation, production company.
|
|
Learning Channel (Firm), production company.
|
|
