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Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure (silent)
About this film
The construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, its opening to traffic on July 1, 1940, its collapse on November 7, 1940, and footage of testing on a scale model of the bridge. The bridge experienced oscillations both while under construction and after opening, and in May of 1940 the Washington Toll Bridge Authority hired Professor Farquharson to make wind-tunnel tests and recommend solutions in order to reduce the oscillations of the bridge. The recommendations were delivered days before the collapse, and Prof. Farquharson was on site at the East Tower taking photographs and motion pictures on the day of the collapse. This version of the film has all footage developed in b&w.
Directors & creators
F B Farquharson, University of Washington
Subjects
F B Farquharson, University of Washington, Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Tacoma Narrows Bridge Failure, Bridge Collapse, Structural Engineering Failure, Galloping Gertie, Tacoma
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