Did the Engineering professor really need to go all the way out to the middle of the bridge to figure out what was going on? "Hmmmm, I can't quite tell from here, better go to the middle..."
to those wondering about the dog: Tubby crouched in the back seat of Leonard Coatsworth's car on November 7, 1940. When the car stopped because of Galloping Gertie's violent motion, Coatsworth abandoned the car. He tried to return to the car for Tubby, but couldn't. The bridge's motion had become too violent. Coatsworth's colleague, photographer Howard Clifford tried, but failed. Professor Farquharson, a dog lover, decided to try. He managed to reach the car, and opened the door to coax Tubby out. He tried to calm the sick, terrified pooch, but Tubby snapped at the friendly hand, nipping the knuckle. Farquharson gave up and staggered back to safety moments before the bridge collapsed. A photo of Farquharson appeared the next day in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, showing his left index finger wrapped with a bandage. The photo caption read "Token of 'Gratitude.'"
I think Professor Farquharson also contributed to the research into the aerodynamics of the bridge later on. It's interesting to know that he also witnessed the collapse firsthand.
Resonance: this example was shown by my science teacher back in 1982. It never left my mind. I've shown it to my children just now and it still is very impressive!
@Plane lovers alike its not Gravity. It’s resonance with natural vibrations. Natural vibrations are different from forced vibrations which happen at the frequency of an applied force (forced frequency). If the forced frequency is equal to the natural frequency, the vibrations' amplitude increases manyfold. This phenomenon is known as resonance.
For all of you who are upset about the dog, the owner tried repeatedly to get the dog out but it was too scared and refused. I saw it on a documentary. Yes, it is sad but the guy had no choice but to run unless he wanted to die.
Nah man, it was a small dog. My dog is no different to a human family member, I would have picked it up regardless. it could bite me, scratch me do whatever it wanted but there'd be a more risk in me squeezing it to death than leaving it behind.
its called galloping. the osculating winds.engineers aren't perfect not then not now. some people say W.T.C. towers collapsed because of engineering flaws. i disagree IMO the main cause of twin towers collapse was jumpo jets full of high octane fuel crashing into them.
Frequency of the wind became equal to the natural frequency of the suspension bridge which produces a large amplitude due to *resonance* and suddenly the the bridge stated swaying in to and fro motion which was almost inevitable to get ceased. Eventually the bridge was unable to withstand the resonance due to which this beautiful suspension bridge collapsed 😔....
It's interesting how a particular environment can affect a structure like that. That very same bridge construction (from the same contractor) was used in several other bridges in the US, and they held up just fine. But the winds at Tacoma affected it differently than in other areas, exposing weaknesses that were not apparent in other settings.
To reach our summer cottage we had to cross this bridge. I am old enough - just - to remember the toll-taker man and the 25-cent toll. I loved the bridge. On the day it fell, my mom drove out to the bridge, stopped, having forgotten some food at our home in Tacoma, when she arrived back at the bridge it was gone.
natural frequency of oscilation and resonance, when the system doesn't moves towards equilibrium as time passes and instead, amplifies the amplitude of the wave
It is a very long bridge. The camera angel makes for tremendous foreshortening, and so the angle of the flex lengthwise along the bridge deck is nowhere near as much as it looks.
I'm an engineering and it failed because the steel girders gave way due to fatigue. Fatigue limit is the number of cycles a material can survive while being exposed to a certain stress amplitude (in this case it was very high) and failure occured after a relatively small number of cycles. The cyclic motion occured due to a phenomenon called aeroelastic flutter. Essentially this means aerodynamic forces (wind) coupled with the bridges natural mode of vibration to cause rapid periodic motion.
Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma News Tribune editor, was the last person to drive on the bridge: Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. The car itself began to slide from side to side on the roadway. I decided the bridge was breaking up and my only hope was to get back to shore." "On hands and knees most of the time, I crawled 500 yards or more to the towers . . . . My breath was coming in gasps; my knees were raw and bleeding, my hands bruised and swollen from gripping the concrete curb . . . . Toward the last, I risked rising to my feet and running a few yards at a time . . . . Safely back at the toll plaza, I saw the bridge in its final collapse and saw my car plunge into the Narrows.[8]
@@bangtansbitchstanlmao2113 sounds like he saw his car plunge off the bridge so not sure any rescuers would've gotten to the car. Plus they were likely trying to help ppl first.
Yeah, it was. I was like you when I saw the video for the first time. I thought that there was no effort made in saving the dog, but both the owner and the professor tried to save him, but couldn't. As a pet owner, I felt bad for the dog, too. Even if the professor could've gotten the dog out, he would've had to restrain him since he was scared. He had enough difficulty walking back as it was, let alone with a terrified dog in his arms. Still, it was a shame.
How amazing seeing how physics and nature laws work. Does not matter how big man made structures are, seeing these structures are nothing for these laws when they start working is remarkable.
I've been across this bridge many times (the new one that replaced the failed one. It's still on the bottom of the Tacoma Narrows). The new, redesigned bridge deck design was tested in a wind tunnel at the University of Washington before it was built. Theodore von Karman participated in the official inquiry. The deck was not replaced until 1950 due to WW2.
I remember watching this video back in 2009, when I discovered CZcams. I genuinely thought it had happened at the time, and didn’t know it was a historical archive. I also couldn’t believe it my eyes.
I was born and raised right by that bridge. As a matter of fact, not only was my grandpa on the team that rebuilt the bridge after it collapsed, but he was one of the last people off before it fell.
I went to school with the son of the man that took most of the movies of the collapse. He made millions from that. I was born in 1944 and remember taking the ferry from Gig Harbor to Tacoma after it fell. The fare on the next bridge was $1.00 per car/driver and a dime per passenger over ten years old. That bridge built in 1950/1951 does sway tho. We had a big wind storm in 1964? and we were on the Gig Harbor side at the span drive in (hamburger place) and you could lean up against the building so your head wouldn't and you could watch the the bridge disappear and five minutes later you could see the whole thing. I was surprised they didn't shut it down but they have a few times since then for that. There was four lanes on that bridge with 18in grating between the lanes for wind relief which led to some interesting lane changing when it was windy, especially if you were in a small car because the wind would come up through the grating. I have seen smaller cars lifted enough that they moved over half a lane. Needless to say that shortly there were big signs that said do NOT change lanes.
BTS World the dog didn’t know any better, yes if you are wondering “he didn’t want his life to be saved!?” Then yes....you could say that....if you can’t see how a dog didn’t know any better then I can’t help you
I remember watching this in 5th grade because the topic was Bridges and our teachers talked about the oscillation, obviously not using the word but instead saying waves, when strong enough, can cause movement in bridges, especially if built at a bad angle and direction perpendicular to normal winds…
I had dream about this bridge many times 10 or 15 years ago, I was on the bridge and try to balance my body not to fall, I was terrified in my dream and felt so lucky it was just a dream. Can’t believe it ACTUALLY HAPPENED in 1940.
That's okay. When I first heard of this story on the Weather Channel, I felt the same way. I was enraged that they would leave the dog behind, but then I learned that both the owner and the professor tried their best to get him out and he wouldn't cooperate. I imagine that he might have gotten underneath the seat where they couldn't reach him, but was far out enough for him to bite them. I'm sure that they both felt bad that they couldn't save the dog. I was sad for the dog, too.
The first time I saw this footage was on an episode of “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” narrated by Jack Palance. The next time I saw it was the very first thing my Physics teacher showed in my very first class in high school (1985)!
@SidneySage93 Yeah, the wind transferred more energy to the bridge during each vibration than it could lose during the same vibration. This caused torsional vibrations (where one side went up, the other down, and the middle remained at rest), eventually building up enough energy to cause extremely large amplitudes of vibration, causing the bridge to collapse under the strain. Hope that cleared it up :)
i dont understand why the car was abandoned. i would think it would be easier and faster to just drive the rest of the way than to jump out and run the span on foot. If he was stuck in traffic when the bridge began shaking it would make sense but I do not see any other abandoned vehicles blocking his escape.
If you think you can drive on that you're completely delusional. You couldn't even drive a car built with modern technology, let alone a car built in the 30s
Had to watch this on 8mm film in school as a kid. They called the Narrows Bridge "Galloping Gerdy". Too bad about the dog. The Narrows Bridge is a MUST STUDY for bridge architects all over the world. 👍
Ofc this is about frequencies and resonant frequencies. It happens everytime and with everything that has a cyclic motion. The amplitude of the cyclic motions enhances with resonance, wich basically is added energy on specific frequencies, until the bridge collapse.
Does anybody here even own dogs?! Seriously I'm actually baffled by the amount of you that think you can just casually pick them up and walk on an oscillating bridge. I own a boxer that is considered a medium sized dog and I'm the only one in my family that can even pick him up and carry him around. And that's a medium sized dog. Some dog breeds are over 100lbs. Even dogs that are about 70lbs, like mine, I can't carry for very long. Keep in mind that the guy that left him behind couldn't even walk on the bridge...If any one of you were put in a life threatening situation where you life could end at any moment, I highly doubt you would risk it to save the dog.
Your doubts are misplaced. My animals are family, no less important than my parents or siblings. If my mom went senile and bit me when I tried to rescue her, you can bet your ass I'll beat the shit out of her and carry her unconscious body if I have to.
@Jar Jar Binks Fair enough it said small. But the dude could barely wall on the bridge according to the documentary. He had to crawl his way to safety.
@@Dover939 so you would carry a dog on a unstable bridge that is bending like tin foil. I highly doubt that. If you were put in that situation here's what probably would happen. 1. you hightail it out of there and not even think about the dog 2.try to save the dog but abandon it because there's no possible way to even carry the dog with you. 3.die because all you did was try to save the dog to try to prove a point or because you valued the dog more than your own life I know, harsh that I would say an animals life is far useless than a humans, but it's not. In life certain actions would have to play out, and the right actions would be a better way than any other actions, even if it means a life of an animal would have to be sacrificed.
I felt bad for that bridge, it was trying its hardest to stay strong... especially when that guy was walking on it. *"My last Nobel act is to have you walk, safely across me human, one last time!"*
is makes me mad when people cry about the animals that die when they never care about anything else. people seriously need to show an equal amount of love for animals, and humans.
Thumbs up if you were sent here as part of studying for a Physics class.
I just learned about resonance and my teacher asked to watch this as well haha
Lol . Yes
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nope. came here on my own time. I don't need a stupid school to educate myself.
Statics :P Engineering master race.
30% of the comments about science. 70% about the dog
Have a heart. It's the only time in history a dog has died.
@Miriam D there is no and. He's just saying what it is.
no one's talking about the dog that much, those people are insanely annoying.
i cried when i heard about the dog
Brain vs heart...
“The car was abandoned and now one was hurt in the incident” thank god 😅
“However, a small dog” oh god no
What kind of person would leave the dog behind like that?
@@jeffro869 apparently it refused to go because it wasn't the owner that took it. Rescuers tried but got bitten.
R.I.P. small dog. Type F in the chat for small dog.
@@kaotikpie f
@@kaotikpie F
I can't even begin to imagine the phone call the engineer who designed that bridge got that day
“Hey uhhhh so.. the bridge you designed? It wiggled until it broke..”
Probably the same idiot walking on on it right before it collapsed
Probably none, it was in 1940
@@celinaflicka345 Someone had to have engineered it regardless of the year.
🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
Did the Engineering professor really need to go all the way out to the middle of the bridge to figure out what was going on? "Hmmmm, I can't quite tell from here, better go to the middle..."
He went to get his dog but I guess he couldn't get it.
It looked like a lot of fun, I'd go out for a minute or two.
Kody Morrison the dog was too scared and refused to leave the car, so no he couldn't get it
I know huh...really Mr, science man? I could see from Seattle that bridge ain't right.
Tout pareil
I would've enjoyed watching the bridge collapse if you didn't tell me it killed a dog
Exactly😭😭
+Zak Harrison i know that well upset rip
+Zak Harrison i've heard that the dog had actually been saved by someone
+IsThatNiek yes
+Zak Harrison SCIENCE!!!!
to those wondering about the dog:
Tubby crouched in the back seat of Leonard Coatsworth's car on November 7, 1940. When the car stopped because of Galloping Gertie's violent motion, Coatsworth abandoned the car. He tried to return to the car for Tubby, but couldn't. The bridge's motion had become too violent. Coatsworth's colleague, photographer Howard Clifford tried, but failed. Professor Farquharson, a dog lover, decided to try. He managed to reach the car, and opened the door to coax Tubby out. He tried to calm the sick, terrified pooch, but Tubby snapped at the friendly hand, nipping the knuckle. Farquharson gave up and staggered back to safety moments before the bridge collapsed. A photo of Farquharson appeared the next day in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, showing his left index finger wrapped with a bandage. The photo caption read "Token of 'Gratitude.'"
I think Professor Farquharson also contributed to the research into the aerodynamics of the bridge later on. It's interesting to know that he also witnessed the collapse firsthand.
Aww it’s so sad :( thankfully nobody else was harmed
Those sound like made up names.
@@trashteamracing8262 real, if i didnt send this 3 years ago before ai started making stuff up i would think its fake too
Resonance: this example was shown by my science teacher back in 1982. It never left my mind. I've shown it to my children just now and it still is very impressive!
My physic teaches showed me this video and I couldn't believe what I saw. This is a great example of why physics and science is so awesome!
same
Or scary
@Plane lovers alike its not Gravity. It’s resonance with natural vibrations. Natural vibrations are different from forced vibrations which happen at the frequency of an applied force (forced frequency). If the forced frequency is equal to the natural frequency, the vibrations' amplitude increases manyfold. This phenomenon is known as resonance.
Civil Engineering plays a great role here to solve the issue
Our Music teacher showed us in 7th grade. Come to think of it I have _no_ fucking idea why...
For all of you who are upset about the dog, the owner tried repeatedly to get the dog out but it was too scared and refused. I saw it on a documentary. Yes, it is sad but the guy had no choice but to run unless he wanted to die.
Poop
Andres Adame Like you, fuck head.
Nah man, it was a small dog. My dog is no different to a human family member, I would have picked it up regardless. it could bite me, scratch me do whatever it wanted but there'd be a more risk in me squeezing it to death than leaving it behind.
Ben James Exactly! Its easy to grab a small dog like that and run
Adam T not when the bridge was shaking while the dog hid under the drivers seat
I drive on this quite often and I think about this every time.
Me aswell I live in Tacoma
Me too, I live in gig harbor
How my mood changed when he said there was a dog in the car..
Foreal a real ball buster
Cry about it
@@floresaza253 We're fucking crying.
@@mikethespike056 Lol
@@floresaza253 we are, why tell us to do what we’re already doing
Why are some people saying it's fake or have something to do with a conspiracy? It's got something to do with the frequency, Learn Science!
its called galloping. the osculating winds.engineers aren't perfect not then not now. some people say W.T.C. towers collapsed because of engineering flaws. i disagree IMO the main cause of twin towers collapse was jumpo jets full of high octane fuel crashing into them.
+Tony Micel Jet fuel cant melt steel beams
+Jake Valentino It doesn't have to melt them to weaken them. Duh. LRN2PHYSICS.
+Mike Crews infact main engineer given an allarm about that while inside the first tower. He saw what was happening.
Paige Holloway Some peoples are crazy.... :D
I never thought bridges were so flexible and bendy. before we know it, we might have concrete bands instead of rubber bands.
Potato OX
Haha fantastic!!
N4Cer Even better!
N4Cer I feel like a dick for doing this but tarmac is asphalt
Pedro Fuentes Yah, you must be feeling like a Richard right now. (But I really don't get why I would feel like you were a Richard.)
Steel. The bridge was made of steel.
Frequency of the wind became equal to the natural frequency of the suspension bridge which produces a large amplitude due to *resonance* and suddenly the the bridge stated swaying in to and fro motion which was almost inevitable to get ceased. Eventually the bridge was unable to withstand the resonance due to which this beautiful suspension bridge collapsed 😔....
It's interesting how a particular environment can affect a structure like that. That very same bridge construction (from the same contractor) was used in several other bridges in the US, and they held up just fine. But the winds at Tacoma affected it differently than in other areas, exposing weaknesses that were not apparent in other settings.
To reach our summer cottage we had to cross this bridge. I am old enough - just - to remember the toll-taker man and the 25-cent toll. I loved the bridge. On the day it fell, my mom drove out to the bridge, stopped, having forgotten some food at our home in Tacoma, when she arrived back at the bridge it was gone.
How old are you
Andy Studebaker you gotta be like 70 or something
@@favianorozco9870 Yeah, so?
I have heard of people living to 70.....
Wow I'm honestly surprised it was a quarter. I would think closer to 10c.
They must've been confused and put rubber instead of concrete...
natural frequency of oscilation and resonance, when the system doesn't moves towards equilibrium as time passes and instead, amplifies the amplitude of the wave
@Yamila Cruz Montano it's just physics
Bridges are thought to always be sturdy, but some are specially made to bend without cracking and breaking.
Happens atleast twice a week for me
I'm surprised that a steel frame has that much flexibility. Also, I'm amazed that the pavement didn't crack.
It is a very long bridge. The camera angel makes for tremendous foreshortening, and so the angle of the flex lengthwise along the bridge deck is nowhere near as much as it looks.
@@starpawsy someone said the bridge was throwing it back
o it cracked, then broke
I was there when it happened. The dog was actually driving the car and kicked the man out. The dog then got stoned and forgot what was happening.
@Stellvia Hoenheim yup and said something about "if it ain't white it ain't right!" Dog knows best.
Love the quote at the end of the video: "The new bridge, is completely stable." lollll
Hey I've been on it, totally stable!
I'm an engineering and it failed because the steel girders gave way due to fatigue. Fatigue limit is the number of cycles a material can survive while being exposed to a certain stress amplitude (in this case it was very high) and failure occured after a relatively small number of cycles. The cyclic motion occured due to a phenomenon called aeroelastic flutter. Essentially this means aerodynamic forces (wind) coupled with the bridges natural mode of vibration to cause rapid periodic motion.
Getting recommended this after the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed this morning…
Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma News Tribune editor, was the last person to drive on the bridge:
Around me I could hear concrete cracking. I started back to the car to get the dog, but was thrown before I could reach it. The car itself began to slide from side to side on the roadway. I decided the bridge was breaking up and my only hope was to get back to shore."
"On hands and knees most of the time, I crawled 500 yards or more to the towers . . . . My breath was coming in gasps; my knees were raw and bleeding, my hands bruised and swollen from gripping the concrete curb . . . . Toward the last, I risked rising to my feet and running a few yards at a time . . . . Safely back at the toll plaza, I saw the bridge in its final collapse and saw my car plunge into the Narrows.[8]
"I started back..." So he just left the dog there in the first place.
BJ the dog refused to leave even when rescuers tried
@@redsloane879 "I started back TO THE CAR..."
@@bangtansbitchstanlmao2113 sounds like he saw his car plunge off the bridge so not sure any rescuers would've gotten to the car. Plus they were likely trying to help ppl first.
@CL Melonshark wouldn't be my instinct, but then I'd either have the dig physically with me not bring him/her in the first place.
And the wind was only 42mph, wow resonance is some powerful stuff.
It sure is
1 mph wind could do something similar
@C. Daniel Thomas who taught you?
Resonance has to do with the right frequency. It could have been much slower and a different bridge, and it could still resonate.
Anyone sent by their Physics teacher for the chapter oscillations ?
yes 💀
yes💀
@@jelenagavrilovic282 kaj dogaja
Not by a teacher, but by the Algorithm itself.
Anyone else here bc of a physics lecture on resonance?
Stupid-ass dog killed itself
Rip in spaghetti always forghetti
dagdamor1
dagdamor1 it had three legs
Wonder if any fish were killed or injured? Anyone know?
+newfielad47 the man on the bridge died
+newfielad47 a dog died
+newfielad47 two salmon were hurt and need hospitalisation but they survives because of organs donor.
Then they were killed for a supper
THAT'S NOT WOT I HEARD, YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR POSSESSION & INTENT TO SUPPLY
+Steven Fox what??
Yeah, it was. I was like you when I saw the video for the first time. I thought that there was no effort made in saving the dog, but both the owner and the professor tried to save him, but couldn't. As a pet owner, I felt bad for the dog, too. Even if the professor could've gotten the dog out, he would've had to restrain him since he was scared. He had enough difficulty walking back as it was, let alone with a terrified dog in his arms. Still, it was a shame.
He should have gone down instead of the dog!!!
How amazing seeing how physics and nature laws work. Does not matter how big man made structures are, seeing these structures are nothing for these laws when they start working is remarkable.
You're gonna need *Flex Tape* For That One
Wait I'm gonna laugh
No I'm not, fucking unfunny delete your account immediately
Martti Tanner ok calm down. Are you lost? Do I have to find your parents little baby?
Martti Tanner cop on you immature p.o.s
Now Thats Alot Of Damage
I've been across this bridge many times (the new one that replaced the failed one. It's still on the bottom of the Tacoma Narrows). The new, redesigned bridge deck design was tested in a wind tunnel at the University of Washington before it was built. Theodore von Karman participated in the official inquiry. The deck was not replaced until 1950 due to WW2.
That engineering lad had some balls of steel to walk on the center line while it was swaying like that.
To be fair, the middle was also the most supported side as the sides were rocking, leaving the middle as that anchor
2:55 the lack of tone shift while explaining something so dark is strangely really funny
1:34 What kind of balls does this professor have? Ones the size of planets?!
Professor walking calmly.
Me, rather anxiously: RUN GODDAMN IT RUN!
Obviously intoxicated
Damn I live here, I knew it collapse once, I pass through that bridge often to Port Orchard and back to Tacoma and Lakewood
I remember watching this video back in 2009, when I discovered CZcams. I genuinely thought it had happened at the time, and didn’t know it was a historical archive.
I also couldn’t believe it my eyes.
I was born and raised right by that bridge. As a matter of fact, not only was my grandpa on the team that rebuilt the bridge after it collapsed, but he was one of the last people off before it fell.
That's cool. What did he work as?
"The new bridge is completely stable." Yeah, I'm sure they said that about the 1st bridge.
yeah chris was right that's fucking terrifying
This is cool because I would drive on the Narrows bridge to work every day, well at least the new one.
This will be in your recomendations.
Im amazed at the resonance but Im also amazed that bridges could be so flexible
I went to school with the son of the man that took most of the movies of the collapse. He made millions from that. I was born in 1944 and remember taking the ferry from Gig Harbor to Tacoma after it fell. The fare on the next bridge was $1.00 per car/driver and a dime per passenger over ten years old. That bridge built in 1950/1951 does sway tho. We had a big wind storm in 1964? and we were on the Gig Harbor side at the span drive in (hamburger place) and you could lean up against the building so your head wouldn't and you could watch the the bridge disappear and five minutes later you could see the whole thing. I was surprised they didn't shut it down but they have a few times since then for that.
There was four lanes on that bridge with 18in grating between the lanes for wind relief which led to some interesting lane changing when it was windy, especially if you were in a small car because the wind would come up through the grating. I have seen smaller cars lifted enough that they moved over half a lane. Needless to say that shortly there were big signs that said do NOT change lanes.
I remember seeing this footage in middle school, I believe for shop class. We had to learn about bridges and then construct one out of toothpicks.
*“Trust me, I’m an engineer“* - me at my job interview.
In addition, you are an electric one
An engineer is that last person to trust.
I think we'll put this thing right here
R.I.P. Tubby. You will never be forgotten.
chairmanmeow1973 maybe the dog shouldnt have biten the rescue team he woulda been alive
Well RIP to your Tubby too :)
BTS World the dog didn’t know any better, yes if you are wondering “he didn’t want his life to be saved!?” Then yes....you could say that....if you can’t see how a dog didn’t know any better then I can’t help you
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Crossed that Bridge numerous times living in Tacoma its a short cut through University Place Washington. Never knew the History.
Live 2 miles from it... So beautiful and the history of it is so interesting
thumbs up if this is for school
+Amadou Bah actually it's for med. school.
*thumbs up* Physics... =)
Physics here too,haha
earth science here
yeah..for physics😂😂
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I remember watching this in 5th grade because the topic was Bridges and our teachers talked about the oscillation, obviously not using the word but instead saying waves, when strong enough, can cause movement in bridges, especially if built at a bad angle and direction perpendicular to normal winds…
Beautiful. Thank you for the video. :D
I had dream about this bridge many times 10 or 15 years ago, I was on the bridge and try to balance my body not to fall, I was terrified in my dream and felt so lucky it was just a dream. Can’t believe it ACTUALLY HAPPENED in 1940.
That's okay. When I first heard of this story on the Weather Channel, I felt the same way. I was enraged that they would leave the dog behind, but then I learned that both the owner and the professor tried their best to get him out and he wouldn't cooperate. I imagine that he might have gotten underneath the seat where they couldn't reach him, but was far out enough for him to bite them. I'm sure that they both felt bad that they couldn't save the dog. I was sad for the dog, too.
As a person who constructs bridges, I can say that i respect the engineering here so much.
Thank you so much for the history of the bridge
This is the 2nd goddamn video I've gotten from the tacoma bridge, today...
I live right next to the bridge and it’s still crazy to think about this
In 2006 i was 6 Years Old and this Video I'm Watching after many Years Wow I'm Impressed 😍
Okay
I love how the tag says "recently uploaded"
The engineer in charge made it on purpose so we all can learn about science, physic and resonances.
Un saludo a todos esos profesores de ingeniería que acuden a este video para explicar la resonancia. Un clásico. Salu3
Resonating frequencies at work my fellow people of science
Ahhh yes this silly puddy should hold up quite nicely!
Wiggle Wiggle Wiggle bridge
Anyone 2019?!
Les Russes yeah for sure
Les Russes yes
no 2020
Sorry yea but the year is now 2020
This was oddly beautiful
The first time I saw this footage was on an episode of “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” narrated by Jack Palance. The next time I saw it was the very first thing my Physics teacher showed in my very first class in high school (1985)!
@SidneySage93 Yeah, the wind transferred more energy to the bridge during each vibration than it could lose during the same vibration. This caused torsional vibrations (where one side went up, the other down, and the middle remained at rest), eventually building up enough energy to cause extremely large amplitudes of vibration, causing the bridge to collapse under the strain. Hope that cleared it up :)
10 YEARS AGO WTH
Gosh just to realized I only live a few miles away from the new one. I literally get kinda nervous every time I go across
Everyone gangsta until the bridge starts dancing
This never gets boring i love man made mess ups😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣" ok kids stop shaking the car!!!"🤣🤣🤣
i dont understand why the car was abandoned. i would think it would be easier and faster to just drive the rest of the way than to jump out and run the span on foot. If he was stuck in traffic when the bridge began shaking it would make sense but I do not see any other abandoned vehicles blocking his escape.
Speedj2 He was the only one on the bridge if he drove the car he would have died
Just imagine driving on that....
Yeah, you can’t drive on that, it may look easy to you, but you are far from correct
If you think you can drive on that you're completely delusional. You couldn't even drive a car built with modern technology, let alone a car built in the 30s
It looks like a Mario Kart 8 course lol
I just drove across that bridge yesterday. I had no idea this had happened back in the day.
After 14 years, this appeared in my recommendation. Ahh!
CZcams, thank you!
It's crazy how a bridge can wobble like that because of wind, Rest in peace, the dog who was left in the car :[
I hate going over this bridge
These videos give me nostalgia.
I remember seeing this at a museum once for an elementary school field trip...it freaked me out lol
when im high it feels like im walking on that bridge!
Oh my gosh, same thing is happening right now as i type, in Guangdong.
One of the craziest things I've ever seen!
Had to watch this on 8mm film in school as a kid. They called the Narrows Bridge "Galloping Gerdy". Too bad about the dog. The Narrows Bridge is a MUST STUDY for bridge architects all over the world. 👍
Whenever I walk on this bridge I’m still scared that it would fall even though it’s super stable lol
physic class brought me here :D
in 13 years later I get recommended this
I remember driving on this bridge.
people who are learning engineering should all watch this
Whose the freak who left their dog in the car?!
it’s just a dog
@@deadchannel9861 would you also say "it's just a baby"? because it's the same. both are dependents.
@@CatOfNaps yeah
well, he would have died if he insisted in trying to get the dog out. A baby wouldn't resist you picking it up like a dog
Thank you for explaining the reasons for the collapse in the Narrows Bridge.
this is gonna replace the bridge in paradise palms, thanks for the prediction brorooooo
Ofc this is about frequencies and resonant frequencies. It happens everytime and with everything that has a cyclic motion. The amplitude of the cyclic motions enhances with resonance, wich basically is added energy on specific frequencies, until the bridge collapse.
R.i.p dog u will always be loved and remembered 😭😭🐶🐶
he would be dead today as well, deal with it
Until the owners pass then the dog is forgotten.
Rest jn pizzas
Does anybody here even own dogs?! Seriously I'm actually baffled by the amount of you that think you can just casually pick them up and walk on an oscillating bridge. I own a boxer that is considered a medium sized dog and I'm the only one in my family that can even pick him up and carry him around. And that's a medium sized dog. Some dog breeds are over 100lbs. Even dogs that are about 70lbs, like mine, I can't carry for very long. Keep in mind that the guy that left him behind couldn't even walk on the bridge...If any one of you were put in a life threatening situation where you life could end at any moment, I highly doubt you would risk it to save the dog.
Sweg Wrestlur ikr these fucking animal lover hippy nutjobs need a damn reality check. Or a smack in the face. Or both.
Your doubts are misplaced. My animals are family, no less important than my parents or siblings. If my mom went senile and bit me when I tried to rescue her, you can bet your ass I'll beat the shit out of her and carry her unconscious body if I have to.
@Jar Jar Binks Fair enough it said small. But the dude could barely wall on the bridge according to the documentary. He had to crawl his way to safety.
It was said to be small though
@@Dover939 so you would carry a dog on a unstable bridge that is bending like tin foil. I highly doubt that. If you were put in that situation here's what probably would happen.
1. you hightail it out of there and not even think about the dog
2.try to save the dog but abandon it because there's no possible way to even carry the dog with you.
3.die because all you did was try to save the dog to try to prove a point or because you valued the dog more than your own life
I know, harsh that I would say an animals life is far useless than a humans, but it's not. In life certain actions would have to play out, and the right actions would be a better way than any other actions, even if it means a life of an animal would have to be sacrificed.
I felt bad for that bridge, it was trying its hardest to stay strong... especially when that guy was walking on it. *"My last Nobel act is to have you walk, safely across me human, one last time!"*
Our physics teacher showed this to us at school, and I must say: This is so terrifying, but also really cool!!
is makes me mad when people cry about the animals that die when they never care about anything else. people seriously need to show an equal amount of love for animals, and humans.
EXACTLY
No humans died so we should grieve for dog