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| Title | Pouring of concrete during construction of Hoover Dam |
| Play video or audio | http://banyan.library.unlv.edu:8080/ramgen/conquer7and8.rm (video) |
| Photographer/Artist/Creator | United States Bureau of Reclamation |
| Original Date | 1939? |
| Summary/Description | The method of pouring concrete for the construction of Hoover Dam is explained. This was taken from the motion picture Conquering the Colorado |
| Subject | Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico) -- 1930-1940Concrete -- Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- 1930-1940Hoover Dam (Ariz. and Nev.) -- Design and construction -- 1930-1940 |
| Full Text | Narrator: It was on June 6th, 1933, that the first bucket of concrete was placed in the very lowest of the dam forms 135 feet below the level where a few months previously had flowed the unchallenged Colorado River. What was to become the highest dam in the world began to rise from the impregnable rock of its foundation. As bucket after bucket of concrete was dumped into the forms, the plan of the structure became apparent, and soon extended along its full 660-feet dimension of thickness at the base. Selecting at random one bucket from among the hundreds of thousands that traveled from the canyon rim, over the cableways, and down into the dam forms, we see the typical operation from the time the bucket is picked up by the cableway on the canyon rim, swung out into midair over the gorge hundreds of feet above the forms, its tremendous weight of 22-tons riding easily and gracefully over the cable as it is lowered into the forms with an ease and certainty seemingly out of proportion to its great bulk and tonnage. As the bucket descends, suspended at the end of hundreds of feet of cable strands, it is received at the forms, the safety lock's unlatched, the signal given, and eight more cubic yard of concrete added to the dams bulk. |
| Coverage | Nevada--Black Canyon |
| Image Number | TC557.5.H6 C65x |
| Access and Ordering Information | Not to be reproduced without permission. To purchase copies of images and/or for copyright information, contact University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections at: http://www.library.unlv.edu/speccol/ |
| Format | Video/RealMedia 0:01:19 minutes |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Mirocapture capturing software; Helix conversion software |
| File Name | conquer7and8.rm |
| Contributor | Six Companies |
| Resource Type | Moving Image |
| Source | United States. Bureau of Reclamation |
| Holding Institution | University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries, Special Collections |
| Digital Collection | Early Las Vegas. Hoover Dam |
