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This giant model stopped a terrible plan
Tom Scott
Tom Scott tells how John Reber's plan to dam San Francisco Bay was disproved by the Army Corps of Engineers' giant hydraulic Bay Model in Sausalito. The model showed the plan would have been dangerously wrong.
HN recommends it as a short, fascinating story of a scale model preventing a terrible engineering decision.
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