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Bookmark or Share- Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse "Gallopin' Gertie" - YouTubeOnly four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster. "Galloping Gertie," collapsed in a windstorm on November 7,1940. The bridge became famous as "the most dramatic failure in...
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1940) - WikipediaThe Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County to its north.
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge | Collapse, Disaster, Length, History, & Facts ...Tacoma Narrows Bridge, suspension bridge across the Narrows of Puget Sound, connecting the Olympic Peninsula with the mainland of Washington state, U.S. The original bridge, known colloquially as ‘Galloping Gertie,’ was a landmark failure in engineering history.
- Tacoma Bridge Collapse: The Wobbliest Bridge in the World? (1940 ...Was Tacoma Narrows Bridge the wobbliest bridge in the world? Check out this amazing footage of the collapse of the world's third largest suspension bridge (at the time), Tacoma Narrows...
- Tacoma Narrows Bridge - WikipediaThe 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 connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait.
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