Engineering Marvels
The masonry structures that were built in ancient Egyptian
What are the Pyramids?
The country that gave the Statue of Liberty to the United States as a gift
What is France?
The inventor who received the United States patent for the electric lamp
Who is Thomas Edison?
Ameren's target year to achieve net-zero carbon emissions.
What is 2050?
Known as the universal solvent
What is water?
Which direction does the Leaning Tower of Pisa tilt?
What is South?
The longest river of the USA and flows through seven states
What is the Missouri River?
Electric current is measured in this unit of measurement
What are Amperes (ie."Amps")?
Ameren's current mission statement
What is "to power the quality of life"?
What is Istanbul?
The Panama Canal joins which two oceans?
What is the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean?
The hottest place in the United States that reached a world record air temperature of 134°F located in California
What is Death Valley?
Electricity travels at the speed of ______.
What is Light?
The year of the merger of Union Electric Company and Central Illinois Public Service Company to create Ameren Corporation.
What is 1997?
The first manned mission to land on the moon
What is the Parthenon?
The first capital of the United States of America under the Constitution and where George Washington was sworn in
What is New York City, NY
An electrical phenomenon where an imbalance of electric charges on a surface or between materials are transferred from one another
What is Static Electricity?
The gravity dam originally built by Union Electric Company that generates hydroelectric power near the Lake of the Ozarks
What is Osage (ie. "Bagnell) Dam?
The only known bird to fly backwards
The longest bridge in the USA is almost 24mi long and is located in Louisiana
What is Lake Pontchartrain Causeway (ie. "The Causeway")?
The St. Louis Arch is based on this type of weighted curve.
What is the catenary curve?
Name of the electric company that helped bring electricity to the 1904 World's Fair.
What is Union Company (ie. later known as Union Electric)?
The Taum Sauk Energy Center's upper water reserve can hold about ____ billion gallons of water.
What is 1.5?
The President on the US $100,000 bill (never publicly circulated)
Who is Woodrow Wilson?