How do dams work?

Learn about how dams work, when the first dams were built, and how they are used to create electricity.

Main Author: Nagelhout, Ryan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : PowerKids Press, 2017.
Edition: First edition.
Series: STEM waterworks.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Dam animals
  • Why dams?
  • Early history
  • How it works
  • Dams today
  • The modern build
  • Making power
  • Reclamation
  • Hoover Dam
  • Mulholland dive
  • The lost lake
  • When dams fail
  • Changing the landscape.