The Engineering That Built the World(2021)
Documentary
First Air Date: 2021-10-10
Average Runtime: 43m
Rating: 6.4
Votes: 5
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 8
The stories behind the iconic structures and engineering feats that have shaped and defined our nation and our world.
Keywords
new buildingengineeringrailroadmechanical engineeringcivil engineeringtrainsroads
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 8E01
Race for the Railroad
Air Date: 2021-10-10
Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, stop ...
E02
Liberty Rising
Air Date: 2021-10-17
A little-known 19th-century French artist embarks on a 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world and e...
E03
Road Warriors
Air Date: 2021-10-24
Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in Amer...
E04
The Panama Canal
Air Date: 2021-10-31
Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic a...
E05
Race to the Underground
Air Date: 2021-11-07
After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston...
E06
Cable Across the Sea
Air Date: 2021-11-14
A century before the Internet, two brave visionaries, Collin Perry and Cyrus Field, endure failure and heartache whil...
E07
Battle of the Bridges
Air Date: 2021-11-21
Braving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and Pres...
E08
The Hoover Dam
Air Date: 2021-11-21
A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the Unite...
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