"This dam can almost power the state of Texas," an engineer told Newsweek, with the scale of energy produced "simply ...

1934: Fred K. Jones, at the podium, president of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce in 1933 and 1934, presided over the opening of bids for the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in front of the ...

The Hoover Dam on the Colorado River between Arizona and Nevada, constructed between 1931 and 1936, was slightly taller, but Grand Coulee was more than four times as long.

Of Reclamation’s 6,000 employees, about 550 work at the dam, according to a 2017 article by Cory Dunlap, training administrator for the bureau’s Grand Coulee Power Office.

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the federal Columbia River Power System.

Construction workers at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington state. The dam was built, beginning in the 1930s, under project labor agreements. (Library of Congress) Before the ink was even dry on ...

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the Columbia Basin Project ...

Lava, glaciers and epic floods reshaped the Columbia River before the Grand Coulee Dam. Long before the Grand Coulee Dam changed the Columbia River, lava, glaciers and epic floods radically ...

Only the Three Gorges Dam in China, finished in 2009, would be bigger. The millions of watts generated at Grand Coulee would power the United States to victory World War II by producing aluminum ...