The Engineering That Built The World
The Engineering That Built The World is a TV show on Channel 9. The program has been available since 2026. A total of 8 episodes have been broadcast, most recently in April 2026.
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The Engineering That Built The World
An engineer battles hellish conditions and labor strikes to tame a wild river. The resulting Hoover Dam stands 60 stories tall, containing enough concrete to circle the equator.
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Engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco.
Visionaries Cyrus Field and Collin Perry risk everything to connect the U.S. to the world via an undersea cable, enduring failure a century before the internet was born.
Alfred Beach builds the first subterranean railway in the USA, the NYC subway system.
A story of building the Panama Canal, one of the most difficult and challenging construction projects in history
Two road builders spent decades creating a highway system connecting all of America. Longer than the Great Wall, it used enough road for three moon trips and cost a fortune.
The story of the the men involved in the planning, financing, and construction of the Statue of Liberty.
The railroad expansion was a massive engineering feat fueled by greed, fraud, and a disregard for human life. Bil Lepp digs into the dark history of the tracks that built America.