Catastrophe to triumph; bridges of the Tacoma Narrows.9780874222890 Catastrophe to triumph; bridges of the Tacoma Narrows The Tacoma Narrows (or The Narrows), a strait, is part of Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington. A glacial landform, the Narrows separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the city of Tacoma. . Hobbs, Richard S Ri·chard , Joseph Henri Maurice Known as "Rocket." 1921-2000. Canadian hockey player. A right wing for the Montreal Canadiens (1942-1960), he led his team to eight Stanley Cup championships and was the first player to score 50 goals in a . Washington State U. Press 2006 188 pages $24.95 Paperback TG24 In engineering classes around the world, footage of the spectacular collapse of "Galloping gal·lop·ing adj. 1. Of or resembling a gallop, especially in rhythm or rapidity. 2. Developing or progressing at an accelerated rate: galloping technology. 3. Gertie," the original 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Noun 1. Tacoma Narrows Bridge - a suspension bridge across Puget Sound at Tacoma Tacoma - a city in west central Washington on an arm of Puget Sound to the south of Seattle , remains a standard object lesson in the history of civil engineering failures. Hobbs (PhD, history, U. of Washington) narrates the engineering and construction history of "Galloping Gertie," along with the events on the day of her collapse, which luckily only claimed the life of one poor canine canine or canid Any domestic or wild dog or doglike mammal (e.g., wolf, jackal, fox) in the family Canidae, found throughout the world except in Antarctica and on most ocean islands. named Tubby, followed by the engineering and construction history of both its 1950 replacement and the new bridge constructed in parallel and due to open in 2007. The narrative is supplemented by numerous photographs of the bridges under construction and, of course, of the November 7th, 1940 bridge failure. ([c]20072005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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