Science busts the biggest myth ever about why bridges collapse
Did you guess ‘resonance’? Guess again.
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5 min readMay 31, 2017
“At least six lamp posts were snapped off while I watched. A few minutes later, I saw a side girder bulge out. But, though the bridge was bucking up at an angle of 45 degrees, I thought she would be able to fight it out. But, that wasn’t to be.” -Bert Farquharson
