THE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE COLLAPSE
Episode 213 | Historical Events
In this History episode we focus on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge — the third-longest suspension bridge in the world when it opened in July 1940, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" for the oscillations visible from its first night in service, and a pile of wreckage on the bottom of Puget Sound 129 days later. Professor F. Bert Farquharson, hired to fix the movement, watched twisting motions in his wind tunnel models and said if that ever happened on the real bridge it would be the end of the bridge. He was standing on the bridge on November 7th, 1940 when it…
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