Download or read book Catastrophe to Triumph written by Richard S. Hobbs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, just months after opening, "Galloping Gertie" captured worldwide attention when it plunged to a watery grave. Richard Hobbs recounts the catastrophe and its aftermath, including the harrowing escapes, the subsequent investigation, the scandals, and the triumph of the replacement spans.
Download or read book Tacoma Narrows Bridge written by Donald R. Tjossem and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, the bridge was in use for 130 days before it collapsed due to faulty engineering and high winds. A decade later, following World War II, the second Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened, and it is still in use today. However, due to a population increase over the bridge's 57 years of use, an additional bridge was opened in 2007 to alleviate increasingly high traffic. The completion of the third bridge allowed vehicle speed to increase from less than 25 miles per hour to the present speed of 60 miles per hour during commuting times. Today, sections of the original bridge that was opened in 1940 and is pictured on the cover are still submerged in Puget Sound and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.
Download or read book Galloping Gertie written by Amanda Abler and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling nonfiction picture book captures the story of the infamous collapse of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington State. The story of Galloping Gertie, the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, is captured through the eyes of a young boy who not only watches the bridge being built, but also witnesses its spectacular collapse not long after the bridge is opened. Author Amanda Abler tells the bridge's dramatic story in a factual and engaging way that makes the science behind the collapse approachable to young readers. In addition to the narrative, the book concludes with a deeper look into why the bridge collapsed and how engineers continue to learn from this infamous engineering failure.
Download or read book In the Wake of Tacoma written by Richard Scott and published by Amer Society of Civil Engineers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Wake of Tacoma is the first comprehensive treatment of the changes that the 1940 collapse of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge has imposed on the design of suspension bridges. Written as a historical narrative, this heavily illustrated book describes design trends before the collapse, the collapse itself, and the investigations to determine its cause. The book then examines subsequent aerodynamic and other design developments and their application in suspension bridges worldwide in the decades following the collapse. In the Wake of Tacoma is a comprehensive reference work on suspension bridges in general, examining virtually every suspension bridge of note built in the past sixty years and highlighting overall development of the state of the art today. It goes beyond the major, well-known bridges to examine many small and mid-span suspension bridges worldwide that have contributed significantly to the modern development of the form. Also covered are the engineering debates and engineers involved; discussions of bridges under construction and under design; and new design concepts and materials to conquer the huge distances envisaged for such crossings as the Messina and Gibraltar straits. Presented in easy-to-understand, nontechnical language, this book, which received the 2006 Publication Award from the Japan Association for Wind Engineering, should appeal to both engineers and nonengineers with an interest in bridges and engineering in general. About the Author Richard Scott is a waterway heritage planner for Parks Canada, where he is currently responsible for palnning along the Trent-Severn waterway. He is also the editor of History of the Modern Suspension Bridge: Solving the Dilemma between Economy and Stiffness (ASCE Press, 2010). Product Reviews ...An outstanding history of suspension bridges focusing on post-Tacoma spans... In the Wake of Tacoma is extremely visual and written in a style that makes it accessible, exciting and interesting to both engineers and the general public. It is a masterful study- well researched, written, and illustrated. --Eric DeLony, Chief, Historic American Engineering Record, National Park Service
Download or read book Souvenir of Tacoma Narrows Bridge written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge written by Board of Engineers Appointed to Report on the Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tacoma s Salmon Beach written by Roger Cushman Edwards and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perched on the shores of the Tacoma Narrows, the community of Salmon Beach overlooks the spectacular Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Built as a series of fishing shacks on the beach, Salmon Beach took on a more permanent flavor after Henry O. Foss towed his two-story boathouse from the city to the tidelands south of Point Defiance. After electricity was introduced in 1934, more comfortable cottages were built in this fishing community. From summer beach camping to an isolated refuge in the middle of a city, a haven for rumrunners during Prohibition to the counterculture enclave of the 1960s, the community of Salmon Beach has weathered fires, evictions, landslides, and government caprice to become the unique neighborhood of Tacoma it is today.
Download or read book Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Washington written by Washington Toll Bridge Authority and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Aerodynamic Stability of Suspension Bridges with Special Reference to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge The investigation of models of the original Tacoma Narrows bridge under the action of wind written by University of Washington Structural Research Laboratory and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ethical Issues from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse written by J. Paul Guyer and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge was completed in 1940 in Washington State. It was constructed to cross the Tacoma Narrows, part of Puget Sound, between the city of Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It was the third longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. Less than a year after its completion it collapsed catastrophically. This is the story of what happened, and the ethical issues that arose from it.
Download or read book Report on Traffic and Revenues Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Washington written by Coverdale and Colpitts and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Report on Traffic and Revenues Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Washington Washington 31 1940 written by Coverdale and Colpitts and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To Engineer is Human written by Henry Petroski and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of introducing technology into conventional academic curricula, thus better preparing today’s students for life in a world increasingly technological, there is as yet no consensus as to how technological literacy can best be achieved. " I believe, and I argue in this essay, that the ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of our human nature and experience. Furthermore, I believe that an understanding and an appreciation of engineers and engineering can be gotten without an engineering or technical education. Thus I hope that the technologically uninitiated will come to read what I have written as an introduction to technology. Indeed, this book is my answer to the questions 'What is engineering?' and 'What do engineers do?'" - Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human
Download or read book Finalreport on Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Washington written by Charles E. Andrew and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineers of Dreams written by Henry Petroski and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 715 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who built the St. Louis, the George Washington, and the Golden Gate bridges, drawing not only on their mastery of numbers but on their gifts for persuasion and self-promotion. It is an account of triumphs and ignominious disasters (including the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which literally twisted itself apart in a high wind). And throughout this grandly engaging book, Petroski lets us see how bridges became the "symbols and souls" of our civilization, as well as testaments to their builders' vision, ingenuity, and perseverance. "Seamlessly linked...With astonishing scope and generosity of view, Mr. Petroski places the tradition of American bridge-building in perspective."--New York Times Book Review
Download or read book To Forgive Design written by Henry Petroski and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that failures in structural engineering are not necessarily due to the physical design of the structures, but instead a misunderstanding of how cultural and socioeconomic constraints would affect the structures.
Download or read book Tacoma Narrows Bridge Tacoma Washington written by Harvey F. Donnelly and published by . This book was released on 1940* with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
