The Book of Massively Epic Engineering Disasters · 33 Thrilling Experiments Based on History's Greatest Blunders by Connolly, Sean -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Introduction 1: The Colossus of Rhodes

Experiment 1: All Shook Up Experiment 2: Hold that Pose

2: Fidenae Stadium Collapses

Experiment 3: From the Ground Up Experiment 4: Weighing the Possibilities

3: The Leaning Tower of Pisa

Experiment 5: Will It Tip? Experiment 6: It’s Sinking In

4: The Collapsing Cathedral

Experiment 7: Flying High

5: The Tay Bridge Disaster

Experiment 8: Wind Load Experiment 9: Snap, Crackle . . .

6: The “Unsinkable” Titanic

Experiment 10: Staying Afloat Experiment 11: Overflow!

7: The Boston Molasses Flood

Experiment 12: Holding Up to Pressure Experiment 13: Slow as Molasses?

8: The Hindenburg Crashes

Experiment 14: Don’t Give Me Static Experiment 15: Down in Flames

9: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Experiment 16: Damping tactics

10: Sherman Tanks Get Stuck

Experiment 17: Elephant’s Footprint

11: Flight of the “Spruce Goose”

Experiment 18: Pressure Drop Experiment 19: “Drag” Racing

12The Plywood Skyscraper

Experiment 20: Blowing Hot and Cold Experiment 21: Into the Swing

13: Radial Tires come unglued

Experiment 22: Corrosion Damage Experiment 23: Spinning Out

14: Whoops—the Lake’s Gone

Experiment 24: The Violent Vortex

15: The Sinclair C Stalls

Experiment 25: Taking Things Wide Experiment 26: Onward and Upward?

16: The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

Experiment 27: Double Hulls

17: The Paris Airport Collapse

Experiment 28: Metal Expansion

18: Chile’s Trapped Miners

Experiment 29: Stay on Target

19: The Metrodome Deflates

Experiment 30: The Pressure’s On Experiment 31: Why a Dome?

20: The Infamous “Fryscraper”

Experiment 32: Reflect or Absorb? Experiment 33: The Umbrella Oven

Afterword At a Glance Photo Credits Copyright About the Author