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London Tower Bridge  First Moveable Bridge Across Thames  1894  Span - 800 feet.

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1 London Tower Bridge  First Moveable Bridge Across Thames  1894  Span - 800 feet

2 Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel  Total Length - 17.5 miles  Two Mile-Long Tunnels  Aircraft Carriers, Tankers, Etc.

3 Tunnels  Orwigsburg (1821) - Auburn, Penn  450 feet - First In US  Mont Cenis (1871) - France To Italy  8.5 miles - First Railroad Tunnel  Simplon (1922) - Switzerland To Italy  12.3 miles - “Most Famous In World”  New York Tunnels  Holland (1927), Lincoln (37,45,57)  Channel Tunnel (1993 ?)  21 miles

4 Dams  Types  Gravity, Arch, Butress, Embankment  Combined Types  Egypt - 4000 BC  Nile River - City of Memphis  Grand Coulee Dam  Hoover Dam  Aswan High Dam

5 Grand Coulee Dam (1933-42)  Washington Lead States in Hydroelectric Power  Gravity Dam - Columbia River  550 feet High, 4172 feet Long  6.5 Million kW by 1980

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