Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse

Impressive footage of a REAL engineering famous failure. In November, 1940, the newly completed Tacoma Narrows Bridge, opened barely four months before, swayed and collapsed in a 42 mile-per-hour wind. There were no casualties except a dog trapped in a car stranded on the bridge. “Galloping Gertie“, the nickname used to define its at that time unexplicable behaviour, collapsed because of aeroelastic flutter. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse was selected for preservation in the United States National Film