Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach. Episode 2, Flawed Design Concept: The Dee Bridge
(2024, original release: 2022)
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2022
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2024
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (37 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
15065546
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames
One spring evening in the mid-19th century, a three-span iron bridge across England's River Dee collapsed just as a locomotive reached the middle of the third span. Railroad technology was only just coming of age, and this collapse was one of its most serious accidents to date. Discover how this accident inquiry led to improved bridge safety throughout the country
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Stephen Ressler
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2022
Mode of access: World Wide Web