Newly installed generators of the Hoover Dam, 1937
The completed turbine room of the Hoover Dam. The four generators have a power of each 82.500 kilowatts. The Hoover Dam (until 1947 Boulder Dam) is a dam was built in the years 1931-36 (221m high, 379m long) in a gorge of the Colorado River, at the border between Arizona and Nevada. It serves the flood control, electricity generation (installed capacity: 1345 MW) and irrigation
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10628537
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48195872
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1960px x 2574px
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Mary Evans / Sueddeutsche Zeitung Photo
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