LAKE MEAD
Construction of Boulder Dam
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INDEX

Acknowledgment
Boulder City
Boulder Dam, Location
Boulder Dam, Cost
Builders
Cableways
Cableway, Government
Cofferdams
Concrete Mixing Plant
Concrete for the Dam
Construction, Features of
Construction, Program of
Cooling the Dam
Dam, Excavation
Dam, Concrete for
Dam, Cooling and Grouting
Diversion Dams—see Cofferdams
Diversion of River
Diversion Tunnels
Equipment
Excavation, Damsite
Excavation, Spillways
Excavation, Tunnels
Fabrication of Steel Pipe
Features of Construction
Government Cableway
Gravel Deposit
Gravel Screening Plant
Grouting Dam
High Scaling
Installation Steel Pipe
Intake Towers
Lining Tunnels
Materials for Dam
Mixing Plants
Outlet Works
Penstock and Outlet System
Personnel
Pipes, Plate Steel
Plants, Concrete Mixing
Plant, Gravel Screening
Plant, Fabrication of Steel Pipe (Babcock & Wilcox)
Plant, Power
Plant, Six Companies
Power Plant
Preparatory Construction
Program of Construction
Results
Scaling
Screening Plant
Spillways
Summary
Towers, Intake
Tunnels, Diversion. Excavation
Tunnels, Diversion, Lining
Tunnels, Penstock

Copyright © 1934
Boulder Dam Service Bureau


Boulder Dam nears completion. The Arizona Valve House now aids in Diverting Water Past the Dam.

THE Official Boulder Dam Films, Lantern Slides, and this Authentic Booklet are an important contribution to Visual Education Departments, Lectures, Engineering Schools as well as the archives of many interested manufacturers and contractors.

AVAILABLE FILM

PRINT 1.16 MM, 2,400 feet in length (6 reels)$144.00

35 MM, 6,000 feet in length450.00

Created primarily for engineers and technical societies, this full-length feature film is so packed with magnificent views and dramatic engineering triumphs that it will hold the interest of any audience. When you have witnessed it you have seen mighty Boulder Dam built.

PRINT 2.16 MM, 600 feet in length$36.00

35 MM, 1,500 feet in length112.50

A complete picturization of the development and progress made on the Project from the first surveys and road-building down to the present final operations.

PRINT 3. 16 MM, 300 feet in length $18.00 A condensed version of No. 2 listed above, telling in brief the story of the Dam's building.

In addition to the film listed above, one 200-foot 16 mm. subject and three 100-foot 16 mm. subjects, all featuring various interesting phases of the work, are also available. All 16 mm. film sells for 6c per foot.

Two 8 mm. subjects are available, No. 1, 250 feet in length, similar in content to Print No. 2 listed above, and No. 2, 100 feet in length, similar in content to Print No. 3 listed above.

SLIDES

Slides selected from the illustrations in this booklet may also be obtained. They present the highlights of the entire structural operations, giving an unforgettable impression of the magnitude of the Project.

Individual slides, each, 75c; Sets of 25, $12.50; Sets of 50, $25.00


For further detailed information concerning films or slides write for free folder. Address all orders and inquiries to the

BOULDER DAM SERVICE BUREAU
Boulder Theatre Building
BOULDER CITY. NEVADA



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