-The Dam has 17 generators, delivering over 2,000 megawatts of energy.
-The Hoover Dam is part of a system which delivers water to over 25 million people in the southwest United States.
-The reservoir built for the dam, Lake Mead, can store up to 9.2 trillion gallons of the Colorado River.
-The concrete used to make Hoover Dam was set with cooling tubes that quickened a process which would normally have taken more than a century to complete.
-Hoover Dam was the first structure to contain more individually laid masonry (think brick by brick) than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
-About 16,000 men worked on the project, and about 3,500 were employed at any given time.
-Due to frequent lack of materials, workers made their own hard hats by coating a regular cloth cap with coal tar. This design worked so well, that Six Companies (the contractors) ordered more commercially for the rest of the men.
-The dam contains approximately 4,360,000 cubic yards of concrete; enough to pave a strip 16 feet wide and 8 inches thick from San Francisco to New York City.
-The lowest wage for a Hoover Dam worker was 50 cents an hour. The highest, $1.25.
-Boulder City, the town where dam workers were housed, still does not allow gambling within town limits. This regulation was imposed in the 1930s, but still today, Boulder City is the only town in Nevada to prohibit gambling.
-High scalers, the workers who hung from ropes on the canyon walls as they drilled with jackhammers and packed dynamite, included circus acrobats. Sometimes they would preform stunts for the workers below by swinging out from the canyons when the overseers were distracted.
-If the heat produced by the curing concrete could have been harnessed and concentrated in an oven, it could have baked 500,000 loaves of bread daily for three years.
-Lastly, your pets will not be receiving a warm welcome at the Hoover Dam, as they are not allowed.