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The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940 and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. The suspension bridge spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula.

Its replacement was opened in the same location in 1950, and a second, parallel bridge opened in 2007. The instability in winds earned the nickname Galloping Gertie.

The bridge's collapse had a lasting effect on science and engineering. In many physics textbooks the event is presented as an example of elementary forced resonance with the wind providing an external periodic frequency that matched the natural structural frequency, even though its real cause of failure was aeroelastic flutter.

Its failure also boosted research in the field of bridge aerodynamics/aeroelastics, the study of which has influenced the designs of all the world's great long-span bridges built since 1940.

[chris]

Holy shit, what was the car doing on the bridge lol. Can you imagine being there on that bridge during that...


oh, the video may have given more details but my sound card is screwed up so I can only watch with no sound..

[güttsfükk]

you can see the one guy walking along the bridge in the one clip. the car was abandoned by a family earlier, it says their dog was too afraid to come out of the car and as a result was the only casualty as a result of the colapse

[saraaelisabeth]

Fucck, I wouldn't even go within ten feet of a bridge like that.

[ChockFullOfChock]

From the first video:

"Miraculously not a single person was fatally injured"

Is it possible to be injured fatally? Doesn't he mean killed?

[DominikGiggs]

I remember this video.

Our teacher showed it to us on the physics lesson

[commondenom]

vids are not playing

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thread fixed

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[danieltmv]

I can see the tacoma narrows bridge from the balcony of my apartment, i wanna go scuba diving in the water below it to see if the wreckage from the original is still there