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Builders
Rails, canals, dams and towers, built bigger and faster than anyone thought possible.
1869–1936 · 10 exhibits- The Erie CanalDug largely by hand across upstate New York, it opened the West and made New York City the nation’s port.363miles
- The Golden SpikePromontory Summit, Utah. A trip that took months by wagon now took about a week.7days coast to coast
- Carnegie SteelAndrew Carnegie’s mills made steel cheap and plentiful, and put America ahead of Britain as the world’s steelmaker.#1in world steel
- The Brooklyn BridgeThe longest suspension bridge on earth, the first hung on steel wire, slung from two granite towers 276 feet high.1,595foot main span
- SpindletopA Texas gusher blew 150 feet into the air, and the oil age began.100,000barrels a day
- The Moving Assembly LineHenry Ford put the Model T on a moving line and cut the work to build a chassis from twelve and a half hours to an hour and a half.93minutes per chassis
- The Panama CanalWhere France failed, America cut through the Continental Divide and joined two oceans.10years to build
- Empire State Building102 stories in 410 days. The tallest building on earth for nearly forty years.410days
- Hoover DamPoured in the Nevada desert in the middle of the Depression and finished two years ahead of schedule.726feet high
- The Interstate HighwaysThe largest public works project in history tied the whole continent together with four-lane roads.41,000miles
