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The Sticky Tide: Boston’s Molasses Disaster of 1919 | The Missing Archive
In this episode of The Missing Archive, host Janice Logan investigates the Boston Molasses Disaster of 1919, a catastrophic industrial failure that killed twenty-one people and injured hundreds in the North End. This true crime and mystery deep-dive explores how a massive steel tank holding two point three million gallons of molasses ruptured due to negligence, thermal expansion, and structural flaws, creating a twenty-five-foot-high tsunami of syrup that moved at thirty-five miles per hour. Listeners will learn about the terrifying physics of non-Newtonian fluids, the immediate chaos on…
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