This dam, part of the Los Angeles aqueduct system, was constructed on a fault. The dam failure caused the deaths of five hundred and it also changed the course of the Santa Clara River. Shortly before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, part of the Los Angeles aqueduct system, collapsed and released …
As the Hindenburg came in to land at Lakehurst, New Jersey, it caught fire and, with hydrogen tanks in use, a huge explosion followed. In the evening of May 6, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg was approaching Lakehurst, New Jersey, preparing to land. The ground crew stood ready as the ship reduced its speed, dropped …
The Yenisei River runs 5,494 km (3,534 mi) northwards from Mongolia to the Arctic Ocean, dividing west from east Siberia. Rushing off the Hangayn Mountains, it is already a mighty force of nature by the time it enters the Russian region of Khakassia; and since 1978 it has driven Russia’s biggest hydroelectric power station. At …
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Can Tho, 170 km (105 mi) southwest of Ho Chi Minh City, is both a province and the biggest city and hub of the Mekong delta. The region is Vietnam’s breadbasket, but the country has always found it difficult to make the most of its prime agricultural resource. Transport has never been straightforward in the …
Gusset plates are not glamorous, but like the two-dollar O-ring seals on the space shuttle Challenger, you take them for granted at your peril. When NASA was still a gleam in John Kennedy’s eye, Eisenhower’s Interstate Defence Highway system was pushing its concrete capillaries across America. In 1967 Minnesota completed its contribution to Interstate 35 …
Bharat Aluminium Co (Balco) is one of India’s major companies, a subsidiary of Vedanta Pic, the conglomerate listed on the London Stock Exchange. Balco is building a new power plant at Korba, in the northeast of Chhattisgarh state, using the firm Sepco as its chief sub-contractor. Sepco in turn hired Garmon Dunkerley (GDCL) as project …