Projects. The nonsurplus food, fiber and crops grown on lands nourished by water from hoover dam find ready markets throughout the nation. In return, these irrigated areas by Farm Machinery and other products from the manufacturing centers. This exchange of goods between west and east, north and south has helped develop Americas Free enterprise prosperity. Hoover dam has pointed the way to the fullest utilization. Man is adding other mighty reclamation projects to the stairway of dams in the colorado river. They await the day when they will cradle mighty, multipurpose dams. They will write new chapters in the story of hoover dam, truly a modern Civil Engineering wonder. Next, a 1960 interview with Herbert Hooverer. Thats followed by u. S. Army captain william johnston. Later a new deal promotional video from 1938 on the importance of the Mississippi River valley to the u. S. In two hours ana is a documentary details the mission to land two men on the moon. Thats all come can go up on c
Served municipal and industrial needs of the pacific southwest, generate hydro electric energy and provide various other multipurpose benefits. The clear waters have opened up the fast, new recreational fish and wildlife Vacation Land for america. Picnic, go boating, swim, fish, and enjoy these important out door recreation products. Hoover dam worked around the clock to serve water and power needs. Falls over 500 feet through the spin stocks to spin the giant turbine wheels and then discharge to the river. This action is completed at downstream dams. Transformers step up hoover dam voltage as it comes from the generators. Lines carry this power up over the powerhouse roof to the switch yard. There it is transmitted over lines across the desert. The river flows south ward. Along the way man diverts from the controlled scream to sustain his prosperous way of life. 67 miles downstream davis down reregulated the colorados flow releasing water through its power plant turbines to irrigators
They removed temporary slabs over the relief valve outlets. Liners assembled in these opens were set in concrete. The turbine scroll case sections were lowered into the pit. Sections were levelled, bolted together and aligned. The completed scroll case was then anchored in concrete. Later the turbines water wheel attached to the bottom end of the shaft was installed inside the case. The butterfly valve was assem e assembled on the generator floor and later connected between the feeder pin stock and the turbine scroll case. Meanwhile the generators two main parts took form. Steel lamination plates were stacked around the row rotor frames. Coils were locked into place and connections were made. The power house lifted it from its erection bay and carried it gently to its foundation over the turbine bit where it was lowered and bolted into place. 466ton rotor was moved from its erection bay. Guide and thrust bearings and other parts were added to complete the assembly. After test runs n8 w
Appomattox courthouse and surrendered his army of northern virginia, effectively ending the civil war. We will be live from Appomattox Court House National historic park on both april 9 and 12th as historians including ed ayres reflect on the last battles and explore the aftermath and legacy of appomattox. We will also bring you reenact its of some of the key moments from 150 years ago and we will open our phone lines to take your calls. The surrender at appomattox live april 9 and 12th, here on American History tv on cspan three. Up next, we hear from Staff Members at the three president ial libraries based in texas about their collections documenting the white house years of Lyndon Johnson, george bush, and george w. Bush. The george bush president ial library and museum hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. As we say here in texas howdy. My apologies to the people from johnson and bush 43, but that is what we do here. Welcome to the bush library. Im the director here. We have t
And the Johnson Library in austin. Since we are running late, we will not do extensive introductions. Michael mcdonald is the curator at lbj and arbor klein and barbara klein. Christina is the registrar. We have our new archivist and our registrar. What we will do tonight is a behind the scenes look at some of the treasures at these three president ial libraries in texas. We are the only state in the country that has three president ial libraries. They will each talk, they have 20 minutes each. If they go too long, they have to leave the stage. Hopefully, we will leave a little bit of time at the end. The ideas to leave time at the end for you the audience to maybe ask some questions you have thought about during the program. We release in question time at the end and i will moderate that. I will pick you out. There are microphones. Tonight is being taped by cspan. There will be microphone so if you raise your hand, you will be passed to microphone so we can get the question on camera