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The Sticky Wave: Boston's Forgotten Molasses Disaster of 1919 | The Missing Chronicles
On January 15, 1919, Boston’s North End was struck by a catastrophe that defies modern logic: the Great Molasses Flood. In this episode of The Missing Chronicles, host Gina Hurst reconstructs the terrifying moments when a 2.3 million-gallon storage tank at the Purity Distilling Company burst, unleashing a 25-foot-high wave of molasses moving at 35 miles per hour. This is not just a story of industrial negligence; it is a deep dive into the physics of non-Newtonian fluids, the structural failures of early 20th-century engineering, and the human tragedy that unfolded in the streets of Boston…
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