December 3, 2024 at 9:00 PM
#OTD #TDIH #July1, 1940 #GallopingGertie ( #TacomaNarrowsBridge ) opens over #PugetSound. #EngineeringDisasters #SuspensionBridges #EngineeringErrors #EngineeringFailures #BridgeDisasters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zc...
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"
YouTube video by Tony C
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July 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
#OTD #TDIH #July1, 1940 #GallopingGertie ( #TacomaNarrowsBridge ) opens over #PugetSound. #EngineeringDisasters #SuspensionBridges #EngineeringErrors #EngineeringFailures #BridgeDisasters
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zc...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-zc...
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie"
YouTube video by Tony C
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July 1, 2026 at 6:09 AM
1963: A mountain collapses into an Italian dam’s reservoir.
The dam doesn’t break — the water goes over it.
4 minutes later, towns are gone.
This was predicted. And ignored.
Full story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/08/11/t...
#Vajont #History #EngineeringDisasters
The dam doesn’t break — the water goes over it.
4 minutes later, towns are gone.
This was predicted. And ignored.
Full story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/08/11/t...
#Vajont #History #EngineeringDisasters
The Wave That Should Never Have Happened — The Vajont Dam Disaster
In 1963, a mountain collapsed into Italy’s Vajont Dam reservoir, sending a tsunami over it. Entire towns vanished in minutes. It was preventable.
www.ryanjhite.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:48 PM
1963: A mountain collapses into an Italian dam’s reservoir.
The dam doesn’t break — the water goes over it.
4 minutes later, towns are gone.
This was predicted. And ignored.
Full story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/08/11/t...
#Vajont #History #EngineeringDisasters
The dam doesn’t break — the water goes over it.
4 minutes later, towns are gone.
This was predicted. And ignored.
Full story → www.ryanjhite.com/2025/08/11/t...
#Vajont #History #EngineeringDisasters
How bad graphs caused NASA’s #Challenger tragedy of 1986.
I watched it happen, it was my senior year of hs, our class was watching it.
#DataVisualization
#ChallengerExplosion
#NASA
#YouTube
#Engineeringdisasters
#ShuttleLaunch
#EightiesSpaceProgram
#Space
#SpaceShuttle
youtu.be/BwtwOqdlY5E?...
that bad challenger graph, or: how to not suck at data visualization
YouTube video by Dr. Fatima
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December 13, 2024 at 10:16 AM
How bad graphs caused NASA’s #Challenger tragedy of 1986.
I watched it happen, it was my senior year of hs, our class was watching it.
#DataVisualization
#ChallengerExplosion
#NASA
#YouTube
#Engineeringdisasters
#ShuttleLaunch
#EightiesSpaceProgram
#Space
#SpaceShuttle
youtu.be/BwtwOqdlY5E?...