The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 the same year. The bridge’s collapse has been described as “spectacular” and in subsequent decades “has attracted the attention of engineers, physicists, and mathematicians.” Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma News Tribune editor, wa
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The 1940 bridge that collapsed and rewrtote engineering rules. In 1940, engineers and spectators gathered around Washington’s new Tacoma Narrows Bridge — one of the longest suspension bridges in the world. Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its unusual flexibility, the bridge swayed dramatically even in moderate winds. On November 7, powerful gusts triggered extreme twisting across the roadway. Photographers and newsreel crews captured the bridge buckling and whipping in massive waves, creating so
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