• Las Vegas: Part I – The Hoover Dam

  • Feb 6 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Las Vegas: Part I – The Hoover Dam

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  • We explore how building The Hoover Dam made Vegas. This is part one in a two part series on the creation of Las Vegas. 

    We're supported by Protocol Labs and Protocol Labs Ventures - funding@protocol.ai. Protocol Labs projects include IPFS, Filecoin, libp2p, and many more. Their aim is to make human existence orders of magnitude better through technology. 

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    Hoover Dam Construction: Boulder Dam (Part I) (1931) (Video)  
    The story of Hoover Dam (Video) 

    Almost Impossible is hosted by Craig Cannon and Tim Hwang. Cola Buskirk helps us research and tell these stories. 
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