Hoover Dam: The engineering wonder From: Lubrication Engineering | Date: May 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers May 1999. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Building it gave hope to thousands of workers during the Great Depression, and to this day, all races of people from around the world come to see what that hope created - an engineering wonder called Hoover Dam.

More than 1 million people tour the Hoover Dam each year and thousands more cross the structure traveling to and from Arizona and Nevada. Tourism at Hoover Dam has grown just as fast as neighboring Las Vegas.

Only 30 miles southeast of Nevada's gambling mecca, Hoover Dam offers a day away from the casinos for the estimated 30 million tourists who travel to Las Vegas each year, says ...

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