Renamed the Work Projects Administration (or the WPA) in 1935, the Public Works Administration was initially created in June of 1933 in the National Industrial Recovery Act. It was designed to fund massive public works projects and provide employment and economic...
Part 1: The Depression and the Enacting of the New Deal In the wake of the stock market crash in October of 1929 and the subsequent effects of the Great Depression, the United States was in turmoil. Unemployment went from 4% before 1929 to around 25% following the...
Of the absolute plethora of landmark examples of civil engineering that Ancient Rome offers, few give us as much insight about Roman life as their sewer systems. While these systems were not the first sewers in human history (as humans have been digging permanent...
While Environmental Engineering is a specific discipline dealing with the cleaning of contamination caused by humans and the prevention of future for the sake of both the overall environment and the health and safety of the human population, Green Engineering more of...
Ever since humanity first decided to stop wandering through the wilderness in order to create a more permanent, stationary civilization we have engineered the land to suit our needs. From the construction of aqueducts and canals to the building of bridges, we have...
Jim White: Discovery, Business, and Bats Most of the initial exploration of the Carlsbad Caverns were done by a teenage boy named Jim White, who discovered the caverns while he was riding through the Chihuahuan Desert in search of stray cattle. He saw a plume of bats...
