Infrastructure

Aerial photo of the California Aqueduct at the Interstate 205 crossing.

Includes all items (events and sites) that are related to civil infrastructure development such as the construction of roads, canals, dams and their impact on society and the environment.

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Title Datesort descending
Cahokia: America’s Ancient Metropolis 1050
Savery's Steam Engine Patented 1698
Coke in Blast Furnaces 1709
Great Flood of Lorca 30/4/1802
Erie Canal 1825
Electric Vehicles 1839
US Public Land Surveys 1851
Haridwar Dam and Upper Ganges Canal 1854
First Passenger Railway in Australia 9/12/1854
Opening of the Suez Canal 1869
The Great Peshtigo Fire 8/10/1871
Great Chicago Fire 8/3/1871
Vulcan Street Power Plant (First Edison Hydroelectric Station North America) 30/9/1882
Sydney Tar Ponds 1901
Completion of the Aswan Dam 1902
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