What Happened to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?

On 7 November 1940, the big news of the day was of the total failure and collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state. The bridge quite simply tore itself apart and fell into the waters of Puget Sound. How and why it happened are questions that have only recently been adequately answered.

The Tacoma “narrows” mark the closest point on Puget Sound between the Washington coast and the Olympic Peninsula. A bridge across the narrows meant the state government could open up yet another section of the state for expansion, so they wanted to build a bridge. In 1930s America, the bridge trend, especially for long bridges, was the graceful suspension bridge.

Bridge architects and engineers sought the most graceful, lightest weight, slimmest designs. As a result, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, when finished, was 5,939 feet (1,810.2 meters) long and a stick-like 39 feet (11.9 meters) wide. It was also lightweight, due to the shallow plate girders used in construction.

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