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Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940) | British Pathé
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Short British Pathe newsreel footage of the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge as it twisted and swayed in the wind. The only casualty was a dog left in a stalled car.
HN uses the footage as a visual illustration of resonance and oscillation growing until structural failure.
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