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Monday, July 16. 2007

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

For those who appreciate the engineering marvel of bridges, Dr. Bob has #17 in his photo series on the construction of the new Tacoma Narrows Bridge.

I have been following the construction with Dr. Bob all along. This is a new section of roadway being guided into place.

I am in awe of people who can design and build such wonderful, useful things.

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 15:06 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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My father in law designed bridges for the US army during WW2 in Europe. Part of the challenge lay not only in the engineering requirements of getting tanks etc across European rivers as the retreating Nazis blew things up, but also writing manuals for the ground forces to fo
llow setting up the new bridges. You don't really know something until a non-specialist can understand and follow your instructions! But I think that what he most enjoyed were the tests where they got to blow sample bridges up and drive BIG THINGS over trial bridges to see how strong they were!
#1 retriever on 2007-07-16 16:16 (Reply)
It looks as if the ubiquitous "they" copied the engineers on the Lion's Gate Bridge (in Vancouver...Canada) a good number of years ago! Plagiarism is the ultimate form of flattery!!

Garry
#2 Garry on 2007-07-16 16:22 (Reply)
It is quite a sight - and sorely needed, given recent growth.
#3 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-07-16 16:49 (Reply)
Hope it avoids the fate of the last T-N Suspension Bridge. The Seattle area actually has lost not one but two major bridges. In addition to the T-N Bridge collapse we all saw in school, they also lost a floating bridge on lake washington c. 1990, ostensibly when someone left the stop-cocks open and it sank to the lake floor.
#4 coyote (Link) on 2007-07-16 17:47 (Reply)
A middle section of the State Route 520 floating bridge sank due to the pontoons taking on water during a severe storm while the bridge was under repair. Also, the Hood Canal floating bridge sank in a 100 mph storm back in 1979.

I should have bought an Amphicar when I had the chance.
#5 Skookumchuk (Link) on 2007-07-16 18:33 (Reply)

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