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A 42-mph wind made this bridge tear itself apart. 🌉
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Science Gone WrongSep 06, 2026

A 42-mph wind made this bridge tear itself apart. 🌉

A 42-mph wind made this bridge tear itself apart. 🌉 . . . Washington's Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940. Just 4 months later, on November 7, steady winds twisted its roadway into waves until a 600-foot section plunged into Puget Sound. The wind was not extraordinary—the bridge's flexibility turned it into its own destroyer.

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Federal Highway Administration, 2012, 'Tacoma Narrows Bridge: Lessons from the Failure of a Great Machine'

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