Episodes
The Engineering That Built the World: Road Warriors (S1EP3 History Sun 24 Oct 2021)
Road Warriors: Two master roadbuilders spend decades struggling to create a highway system that connects every city and town in America. It will be the greatest public works project in history–more expensive than two thousand Hoover Dams, three times longer than the Great Wall of China, and with enough pavement for three round trips to the moon.
Airdate: Sun 24 Oct 2021 at 21:00 on History
Season 1 Episode 3
The Golden Gate Bridge. The Panama Canal. The Transcontinental Railroad. Iconic structures that have shaped and defined our nation and our world. The Engineering That Built the World tells the stories of the brilliant visionaries behind the most epic builds of the past two centuries. Against insurmountable challenges, these are the unknown tales of rivalries, egos, backdoor politics and the brilliant innovations behind iconic feats of engineering that made the future possible.