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The article focuses on the four-part television documentary "Great Projects." The first show, "A Tale of Two Rivers," describes the taming of two mighty waterways, the Colorado and the Mississippi. Until former U.S. President Herbert Hoover took over Mississippi flood relief, the river had repeatedly broken through its levees. Hoover, who had worked as a professional engineer, championed scientific flood control. Power is the subject of the second episode, "Electric Nation," the story of how the U.S. got wired. The third show, "Bridging New York," is the tale of two engineers, Gustav Lindenthal, from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his protégé Swiss immigrant Othmar Ammann. The final episode, "The Big Dig," tells a story that is still in process, the underground relocation of Boston's central artery. |