The Engineering That Built the World Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - Race for the RailroadTwo rival rail companies 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.
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Episode 2 - Liberty RisingA 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.
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Episode 3 - Road WarriorsTwo 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.
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Episode 4 - The Panama CanalTwo 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.
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Episode 5 - Race to the UndergroundAfter 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.
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Episode 6 - Cable Across the SeaA 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 BridgesBraving treacherous waters 350 feet deep, gale-force winds and earthquakes, obsessed engineer Joseph Strauss and President Herbert Hoover battle to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time in San Francisco: The Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge.
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Episode 8 - The Hoover DamA 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.
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