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The Engineering That Built the World Season 1 Episodes

Season 1 Episode Guide

Season 1

8 Episodes 2021 - 2021

Episode 1

Race for the Railroad

Sun, Oct 10, 2021

One of the greatest engineering achievements of our world, the railroad expansion across America was also a tale of greed, financial miss dealings, fraud, and a lack of concern for human life that is hard to believe.

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Episode 2

Liberty Rising

Sun, Oct 17, 2021

The story of the the men involved in the planning, financing, and construction of the Statue of Liberty.

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Episode 3

Road Warriors

Sun, Oct 24, 2021

Two master road builders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. Costlier than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and enough road for three round trips to the moon.

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Episode 4

The Panama Canal

Sun, Oct 31, 2021

A story of building the Panama Canal, one of the most difficult and challenging construction projects in history

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Episode 5

Race to the Underground

Sun, Nov 7, 2021

Alfred Beach builds the first subterranean railway in the USA, the NYC subway system.

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Episode 6

Cable Across the Sea

Sun, Nov 14, 2021

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.

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Episode 7

Battle of the Bridges

Sun, Nov 21, 2021

Engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco.

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Episode 8

The Hoover Dam

Sun, Nov 21, 2021

A self driven engineer sets out to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, and bring water to the dry American West. He'll struggle with a disgruntled workforce, hellish conditions, and many engineering challenges, but when it's done, the Hoover Dam will be as tall as a 60 story building, and be built with enough concrete to circle the equator.

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