@artygoetia1993.bsky.socialDays in History: October 9th, 1936, harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, Hoover Dam started sending electricity over transmission lines spanning 266 miles of mountains and deserts to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles. #history #HooverDam #DaysinHistory
@bill-bo.bsky.socialDid you know?
On this day, October 9th, in 1936, harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, The Hoover Dam began sending electricity to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles, 266 miles away.
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Some kind of machine things at Hoover Dam (don't ask me to get technical - ain't gonna happen). I thought they made a nice geometric pattern but have no idea what they actually do!
@mabelquill.bsky.socialRoosevelt Dedicates Hoover Dam On September 30, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the massive dam on the Colorado River then officially called Boulder Dam. #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #HooverDam #EngineeringHistory #FranklinRoosevelt #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp
@lahistory.bsky.socialSept 30, 1935: Boulder Dam (renamed #HooverDam in 1947) was dedicated 91 years ago today. Los Angeles Valley College Historical Museum brochure (1928), via @archive.org: archive.org/details/cavg... #waterhistory #westernwater #OTD
@lronlacy.bsky.social‘Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers his talk at the dedication of Hoover Dam (then Boulder Dam).
30 September 1935.’
#BureauOfReclamation photographer
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@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1935: A New Deal Dedication (3)
#FDR to dedicate the Boulder (Hoover) Dam
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‘Franklin D. Roosevelt touring the construction site of the Boulder Dam’ (diversion tunnel segment for penstock to turbines)
Sept. 30, 1935
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@mac-photo.comJust a simple shot of Hoover Dam from a roadtrip one summer. #hooverdam
@lronlacy.bsky.socialIn #SEPTEMBER 1940
Hoover Dam: ‘Tourists gather around one of the generators in the Nevada wing of the powerhouse to hear its operation explained, September 1940’
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@lronlacy.bsky.social#OTD in 1933
‘The concrete foundation of the [Boulder - ultimately Hoover -] dam is poured into separate blocks called “lifts”.’
September 11, 1933
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