Station:
History (US)
Status:
To Be Determined
Start:
2021-10-10
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The Golden Gate Bridge. The Panama Canal. The Transcontinental Railroad. Iconic structures that have shaped and defined our nation and our world. The Engineering That Built the World tells the stories of the brilliant visionaries behind the most epic builds of the past two centuries. Against insurmountable challenges, these are the unknown tales of rivalries, egos, backdoor politics and the brilliant innovations behind iconic feats of engineering that made the future possible.
There is no Next Episode of The Engineering That Built the World planned.
S1E6 - Cable Across the Sea
A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.
Air Date: 14 Nov 2021 20:00 (CDT)
S1E7 - Battle of the Bridges
Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.
Air Date: 21 Nov 2021 20:00 (CDT)
S1E8 - The Hoover Dam
A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, bringing much needed water to the arid American West.
Air Date: 21 Nov 2021 21:03 (CDT)