Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eighty-five years ago, Galloping Gertie collapsed and fell into the Tacoma Narrows. on Nov. 7, 1940, about 11 a.m., the previous ...
TACOMA, Wash. (WHTM) — The construction workers called it "Galloping Gertie." Construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge started in 1938, and it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It was the world's ...
The winds were blowing at 40 mph (64 km/h) across the Tacoma Narrows strait when "Galloping Gertie" began to bounce. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connected Tacoma, Washington, with the Kitsap ...
On Nov. 7, 1940 — 85 years ago Friday — the Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisted and danced in a 40 mph windstorm and then collapsed. The failure of a bridge only four months old was a spectacular lesson for ...
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Why engineers thought this bridge was safe until the wind took control
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was considered modern, efficient, and perfectly safe. But almost from the day it opened, the structure began behaving in ways engineers couldn’t explain. As wind conditions ...
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