The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges...
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1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait...
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The 1950 Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that carries the westbound lanes of Washington State Route 16 (known...
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landforms, the Narrows separates the Kitsap Peninsula from the city of Tacoma. The Narrows is spanned by the twin Tacoma Narrows Bridges (State Route 16)...
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The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (/ˌvɛrəˈzɑːnoʊ/ VERR-ə-ZAH-noh), also referred to as the Narrows Bridge, the Verrazzano Bridge, and simply the Verrazzano...
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over the Tacoma Narrows in 1939 on the unfinished Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which would later collapse months after opening in 1940, into Tacoma over Secondary...
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Washington Bridge". Panynj.gov - Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Retrieved May 21, 2023. "Tacoma Narrows Bridge - The Bridge Machine Since 1950". Washington...
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Leon Moisseiff (category American bridge engineers)
developments of the theory of suspension bridges are eclipsed by the dramatic failure of the Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge, his design, four months after its...
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port. The city gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname "Galloping Gertie" due to the vertical...
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Parsons Corporation (category Strait of Messina Bridge)
Mendenhall) Pershing MRBM miss-distance indicators Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950) Work on Brooklyn Bridge World Trade Center Port Authority Trans-Hudson Transportation...
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Titlow Beach (category North Tacoma, Washington)
Titlow Beach is in Tacoma, Washington, USA. It is located along Puget Sound near the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It has a beach, community center, park, water...
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traffic with four lanes on April 29, 1939. The bridge's design was similar to that of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which collapsed in 1940. As a result, extra...
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Automobile design Frank Wattendorf Sting (fixture) Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1950), the first suspension bridge to be tested in a wind tunnel Water tunnel, the...
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Seattle metropolitan area (redirect from Seattle-Tacoma Metropolitan Area)
Retrieved February 13, 2024. Lindblom, Mike (August 24, 2022). "Tacoma Narrows Bridge tolls will get cheaper this fall". The Seattle Times. Retrieved...
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City's Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge and San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The ten highest bridges in the United States: Royal Gorge Bridge—955' Mike O'Callaghan–Pat...
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expensive bridge and the largest self-anchored suspension bridge ever constructed. Tacoma Narrows Bridges (Washington, United States). Opened in 1950 and 2007...
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Pierce County, Washington (redirect from Tacoma County, Washington)
highway. Interstate 5 Interstate 705 State Route 7 State Route 16 (Tacoma Narrows Bridge) State Route 99 State Route 167 State Route 410 State Route 512...
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creeks. It has experienced a number of bridge failures before and after the well known Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse in 1940. The single greatest cause...
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16, about 6 mi (10 km) from its origin at Interstate 5, over the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. The S'Homamish or Homamish (Lushootseed: sxʷəbabš), an ancestral...
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cables to the bridge towers. Although the Golden Gate Bridge design has proved sound, a later Moisseiff design, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge, collapsed...
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in the intermediate hosts of the tapeworm A nickname for the 1950 Tacoma Narrows Bridge in the U.S. state of Washington Sturdee, a surname (with a list...
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replaced by Hood Canal Bridge in 1961 Tacoma Narrows, replaced by Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 but reinstated from 1940 to 1950 In 2022, Washington State...
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aerodynamics and Tacoma Narrows Bridge case is discussed and disputed in Yusuf K. Billah, Robert H. Scanian, "Resonance, Tacoma Bridge failure, and undergraduate...
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was President of The Pacific Bridge Company in the 1930s-1940s and was president at the building of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge completed in 1940. Was on United...
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Northwest and produced the 40 mph (64 km/h) winds that destroyed the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. On November 10 the fast-moving storm crossed the Rocky Mountains...
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2010. The design of the Mackinac Bridge was directly influenced by the lessons from the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which failed in 1940 because of its...
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David B. Steinman (category American bridge engineers)
of these bridges is "Galloping Gertie," the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Steinman consulted extensively with the boosters of the bridge during the...
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this issue. "Thomas Viaduct Railroad Bridge | ASCE". www.asce.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07. "Tacoma Narrows Bridges | ASCE". www.asce.org. Retrieved 2021-12-07...
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critical in investigating the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 and was the last person on the bridge before it collapsed. She was originally a...
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structures such as pedestrian bridges and long-span road or rail bridges. One of the most famous examples is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge that collapsed shortly...
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