The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

The Engineering That Built the World - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes8
DatesOct 10, 2021 - Nov 21, 2021

Episodes

Race for the Railroad
Season 1Episode 163 min

Race for the Railroad

Two rival rail companies, led by Charles Crocker of the Central Pacific and Thomas Durant of the Union Pacific, will stop at nothing to best each other while competing to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen--an unprecedented railroad that crosses through the wild American continent and unites a divided nation.

Oct 10, 2021
Liberty Rising
Season 1Episode 263 min

Liberty Rising

A little-known 19th Century French artist embarks on an impossible 20-year odyssey to build the tallest statue in the world, and erect it on U.S. soil. His 225-ton colossus known as "The Statue of Liberty" will not only become the ultimate emblem of American identity, but will go on to change the way tall structures are built.

Oct 17, 2021
Road Warriors
Season 1Episode 363 min

Road Warriors

Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history--more expensive than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and with enough pavement for three round trips to the moon.

Oct 24, 2021
The Panama Canal
Season 1Episode 463 min

The Panama Canal

Two powerful nations--France and America--compete to build a path just 50 miles long that will connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Completing it will cost 30 thousand lives, $600 million dollars, and require overcoming every obstacle imaginable--from mudslides to malaria to bankruptcy.

Oct 31, 2021
Race to the Underground
Season 1Episode 563 min

Race to the Underground

After the London Underground becomes the first subway system in the world, visionary engineers in New York and Boston vie to build the first one in America. But being first will mean overcoming unprecedented engineering challenges, deadly accidents, fierce political infighting, and the public's fear of the underground. When the dust settles, the American city will never be the same.

Nov 7, 2021
Cable Across the Sea
Season 1Episode 663 min

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.

Nov 14, 2021
Battle of the Bridges
Season 1Episode 763 min

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.

Nov 21, 2021
The Hoover Dam
Season 1Episode 862 min

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.

Nov 21, 2021

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