One of the greatest engineering achievements of our world, the railroad expansion across America was also a tale of greed, financial miss dealings, fraud, and a lack of concern for human life that is hard to believe.
Two master road builders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. Costlier than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and enough road for three round trips to the moon.
A 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.
A self driven engineer sets out to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States, and bring water to the dry American West. He'll struggle with a disgruntled workforce, hellish conditions, and many engineering challenges, but when it's done, the Hoover Dam will be as tall as a 60 story building, and be built with enough concrete to circle the equator.
