During the Great Depression, America built the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.
We built the transcontinental railroad, the Interstate Highway System, the Hoover Dam, Grand Central Station.
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He was even criticized in hindsight for visiting the Hoover Dam on the eve of the debate.
We built railroads and highways, and the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge.
It was during the Great Depression that we built the Hoover Dam that brought electricity to rural America.
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An exaflop machine using today's standard x86 processors would draw 2 gigawatts of electricity, the maximum output of the Hoover Dam.
Past generations gave us the interstate highway system and the Hoover Dam.
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Closer to home, he neatly highlights the role of gravity as an energy "engine" by discussing how the Hoover Dam converts gravitational energy into electric power.
Large-scale construction projects similarly meant deaths: Six people gave their lives for the Empire State Building, 11 for the Golden Gate Bridge and 96 for the Hoover Dam.
People from all around the world would come to America to see the Golden Gate Bridge and the Hoover Dam -- (applause) -- and Grand Central Station and the interstate highways.
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The "People of the Springs" exhibit traces the city's obscure history, from Native American dwellings to the arrival of the railroad on the Western frontier and the construction of Hoover Dam.
In addition some of the 3D rendered images look bizarre including a flattened Eiffel Tower, cars that appear to have melted into roads and a road that looks like it has plunged into the US's Hoover Dam.
One told me that being involved in Crossrail was like his own Hoover Dam (the huge US dam built during the Great Depression) in terms of scale and personal achievement.
And we understood that if we're investing in things like a Hoover Dam or DARPA -- the research and development arm of our military that ended up producing things like the Internet or GPS -- that that, in fact, would be good for everybody.
In 2009, he was aggravated when he was told that none of the money from the stimulus would be spent on a signature project, a modern-day Hoover Dam or Interstate Highway System.
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