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| Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie" |
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Watch the amazing "Gallopin' Gertie" November
7, 1940 video clip.
1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge
Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon
across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest
suspension span in the world opened on July
1st. Only four months later, the great span's
short life ended in disaster. "Galloping
Gertie," collapsed in a windstorm on November
7,1940.
The bridge became famous as "the most
dramatic failure in bridge engineering
history." Now, it's also "one of the world's
largest man-made reefs." The sunken remains
of Galloping Gertie were placed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1992
to protect her from salvagers.
A dramatic tale of failure and success
The story of the failure of the 1940 Narrows
Bridge and the success of the Current Narrows
Bridge is a great American saga. When
Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound,
it created ripple effects across the nation
and around the world. The event changed
forever how engineers design suspension
bridges. Gertie's failure led to the safer
suspension spans we use today.
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Durée : 356 s |
| Tacoma Bridge Disaster |
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Color video of the The Narrows Tacoma Bridge
Disaster of 1940. Before asking questions,
please visit this wiki article, which has a
lot of information on its collapse and why it
happened:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Bridge#Ga
lloping_Gertie
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Durée : 265 s |
| Tacoma Narrows Newsreel |
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Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows
Bridge Collpase. She was already known to
move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she
began to oscillate due to resonance and would
eventually collapse
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Affichage : 304203
Durée : 154 s |
| Tacoma Meteor |
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Commercial for Toyota's Tacoma pickup
involving a meteor impact. Yep, it's the
famous "meteor hits truck" video but without
the end cut off. The burning peice of
wreckage falling out of the sky near the end
was the dirt bike that was in the back of the
truck. Toyota has a bunch of other
commercials their trucks surviving weird
things.
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Durée : 31 s |
| Give Peace A Chance---Tacoma Police Riot |
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Protesters tear-gassed several times in
Tacoma while opposing shipments of military
equipment to Iraq. Confrontations had
happened all night long between protesters
and riot police. As you can see here, the
police decided to gas everyone while they
sung Give Peace A Chance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mo
de=related&search=
That video shows what police had said after a
protest in Miami. It might help explain
totalitarian police mentality and why they
shot at protesters in Tacoma.
No barricades were thrown, as police claim. A
response video was made to police, in fact:
watch it here:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z-w7g_8ZCYU
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Affichage : 97600
Durée : 143 s |
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