Title: Shock prevention Description: Shock prevention; Hoover Dam (AKA: Boulder Dam); completed in 1936 at a cost of $49 million), an arch-gravity concrete dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River on the border of U.S. States Nevada and Arizona, located approximately thirty miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada; 1244 feet in length; 726.4 feet in height; at the time of its completion, Hoover Dam, named after President Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), who was instrumental in launching its construction, was the world's largest electric-power generating station and the world's largest concrete structure, until surpassed in both respects by the Grand Coulee Dam in 1945. Location: Colorado River Bridge US 93, August 8, 2009 Category: Geography Topic: Colorado Subject: Hoover Dam Keywords: architecture, bridges, constructions, dams, water retaining structures. Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 2400 x 3000 (7.20 MPixels) (1.25) Print Size: 20.3 x 25.4 cm; 8.0 x 10.0 inches File Size: 20.63 MB (21,632,678 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000257077c Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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