Re: Tacoma Narrows, PIRA # 3A60.10

the physics 2000 CD which is $10 also has some good footage (quicktime) movies and is broken up into various clips...... great for in class use too. I didn't know that they reconstructed it. Good info... thx

Paul Fechtmeister

paulfecht@hotmail.com

>From: David Maiullo

>Reply-To: tap-l@listproc.appstate.edu

>To: Tap-L

>Subject: Tacoma Narrows, PIRA # 3A60.10

>Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2002 15:01:17 -0500

>Hi All:

>Thought this site might be useful to all who are interested in the

>Tacoma Narrows bridge and it's subsequent collapse.

>13. History of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

>http://www.lib.washington.edu/specialcoll/tnb/

>The Department of Special Collections at the University of Washington

>has

>created an excellent online exhibit documenting the rise and (literal)

>fall

>of the Tacoma Narrows bridge in Washington State, an event referred to

>as

>the Pearl Harbor of engineering. The massive structure was built between

>1938 and 1940 and, at the time of its completion, was the third longest

>suspension bridge in the world. The bridge displayed some notable

>wavelike

>motions during the final stages of construction, but no one was prepared

>for

>what happened on November 7, 1940, when the entire structure began to

>buckle, and shortly collapsed into the water below. Amazingly, the only

>fatality was a dog that was trapped in one of the vehicles on the main

>span

>of the bridge. The online exhibit documents this amazing event, with

>numerous photographs of the bridge under construction, and most

>incredibly,

>dramatic shots of the bridge buckling and its fall taken by several

>bystanders. This exhibit will be of particular interest to engineers,

>particularly those working in the field of bridge construction. [KMG]

>I hope everyone has a great weekend.

>-Dave/Rutgers

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