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In 1962, engineers finished the construction of a huge wall of concrete across the Dixence River in Switzerland. This wall is 2,296 feet long, more than a half-mile. But this dam, called the Grand Dixence, isn’t the longest dam on earth, it’s the highest. From the base of the concrete dam to its rim, it measures 935 feet. That m
