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Norris Dam

(Encyclopedia)Norris Dam: see Tennessee Valley Authority. ...

Oroville Dam

(Encyclopedia)Oroville Dam, 770 ft (235 m) high and 7,600 ft (2,317 m) long, on the Feather River, N Calif., near the city of Oroville. The highest dam in the United States and the largest unit of the Feather River...

Navajo Dam

(Encyclopedia)Navajo Dam, 402 ft (123 m) high and 3,648 ft (1,112 m) long, NW N.Mex., on the San Juan River, near the Colo. line; built 1958–63 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The dam, a major unit of the Colo...

Vaiont Dam

(Encyclopedia)Vaiont Dam, 858 ft (262 m) high, on the Vaiont River, a tributary of the Piave River, in Venetia, NE Italy, near Belluno. Vaiont Dam, one of the highest in the world, was completed in 1961 and is used...

Wilson Dam

(Encyclopedia)Wilson Dam: see Tennessee Valley Authority. ...

Boulder Dam

(Encyclopedia)Boulder Dam: see Hoover Dam.

Bonneville Dam

(Encyclopedia)Bonneville Dam bŏnˈəvĭl [key], one of the major dams on the Columbia River where it passes through the Cascade Mts., between Oregon and Wash. The dam, 2,690 ft (820 m) long and 197 ft (60 m) high,...

Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herholdt

(Encyclopedia)Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herholdt hŏlˈgər hănrēkˈ hărˈhŏlt dräkhˈmän [key], 1846–1908, Danish poet and dramatist. His early work was influenced by the political realism of Georg Brandes,...

Bohr, Niels Henrik David

(Encyclopedia)Bohr, Niels Henrik David bōr [key], 1885–1962, Danish physicist, one of the foremost scientists of modern physics. He studied at the Univ. of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 1911) and carried on research on the...

John Day Dam

(Encyclopedia)John Day Dam, 219 ft (67 m) high and 5,640 ft (1,719 m) long, on the Columbia River between Oregon and Wash.; built between 1959 and 1968 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It is an extremely large ...