Imagine being the lead engineer and getting THAT phone call. "The bridge is doing WHAT!?!"

@grahamj9101

5 жыл бұрын

Well, it happened to someone in London in June 2000: check out the "Wobbly Bridge". Fortunately, its lateral movement was cured with hydraulic dampers.

@hazaruddin04

5 жыл бұрын

Spaghetting

@NTRCOAST_9724

5 жыл бұрын

Gjcrjnrzfztnzgzfzgz hh*%%.?,&!&!/&5-

@markm318

5 жыл бұрын

“What do you mean the bridge collapsed???”

@glitterixfairy4021

5 жыл бұрын

It was the same engineer who designed the Golden Gate Bridge XD

Hats off to those who are here from physics class 😦

@jakem5689

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. Learning about air flow and pressure.

@yourchoice9261

3 жыл бұрын

I came here from a book.

@pasqualeforlenza9505

3 жыл бұрын

Doing oscilations :)

@cunty

3 жыл бұрын

learning about frequencies and waves

@griffio4

3 жыл бұрын

Same lol

What's amazing is that the bridge started doing this during construction, everyone said, "eh, this is fine" and nicknamed it "Galloping Gertie", and it was used for 5 months until it collapsed.

@PlasticAddict301

3 жыл бұрын

I live in the area, there’s actually two bridges now.

@AbrahamLincoln4

3 жыл бұрын

"Galloping Gerdie." I can never get enough of Nicknames used in the early 20th century lol.

@briskyoungploughboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@AbrahamLincoln4 my dad drove a bus he called "Belching Bertha".

@AJ_Deadshow

2 жыл бұрын

Wow

@sharkfangaming7919

2 жыл бұрын

It was four months not five

I am quite fond of the added background music, but can you imagine what the actual sounds must have been like? The groans, the rumblings, the metallic creaking, the whip-like snap of those huge cables? It would have been nightmarish.

@tamekkaknuth9612

2 жыл бұрын

Music is extremely soothing..like my dolphins

@tbecker97204

Жыл бұрын

The Blue Danube Waltz?

@amandalynn9378

Жыл бұрын

@Shelley Anthony I LOVE IT :D It makes me happy

@floseatyard8063

Жыл бұрын

I found a video with this same music and immediately searched for this video as I remembered it

@WhyDoIKeepFuckinUp

Жыл бұрын

I’m fond of it, but it makes me very emotional too.

Now imagine driving on that and having red shells thrown at you. That's what it's like to play Rainbow Road

@Jack-zy6ik

4 жыл бұрын

Brynna Andersen i was wondering why no one made thos joke yet, all i could think about was me driving my car on rainbow road trying to get a perfect jump.

@IndependentOreo

4 жыл бұрын

I should not be laughing at this lmao

@kurtbradwill

4 жыл бұрын

I’m in love...

@frostedcherrikookie1848

4 жыл бұрын

@@IndependentOreo dont fight it.

@kimberlyhoward4940

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣😍

for 1940 that footage is amazing, Looks 70's

@shaidynbenoit7253

4 жыл бұрын

Accurate

@shaidynbenoit7253

4 жыл бұрын

@Derektrainman 03 agree

@johnnykaldani633

4 жыл бұрын

Was that an AMC Pacer abandoned on that bridge?

@LouieYouTuber

4 жыл бұрын

Johnny Kaldani Negative; looks to be a 1936-1938 Tudor (two-door) Coupe.

@Javie244

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnnykaldani633 they left for a walk and they did not expect that to happen who would tho

What amazes me is the fact that this happened in 1940 and almost the whole thing was caught on camera. Not to mention the quality of the filming is pretty good.

@daxster499

Жыл бұрын

I know right! Not like alien or bigfoot videos coming out now that it's the most blurred thing ever haha

@angelusvastator1297

Жыл бұрын

Yup looks like a video from the 70s

@k80_

Жыл бұрын

Film is great because it can be unscaled essentially forever. Unlike digital where the resolution you record in is what it is and as of now can’t be upscaled using technology. Crazy that there are multiple angles too

@lialegg6133

Жыл бұрын

If I'm remembering correctly, there was some kind of camera or video store on that side of the bridge.

@Maxawa0851

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, there was a camera shop with 16mm film

The collapse of the bridge was recorded by a local camera shop owner named Barney Elliott, and in 1998, Elliott's film titled The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse was selected by the U.S. library of congress as being culturally and historically significant.

@AbrahamLincoln4

3 жыл бұрын

wow. Well it is a really interesting piece of footsge.

@dd212NYC

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t know if this is a dumb question or not but how did he record this? They didn’t have home video recorders in the 1940s. Certainly not in color. What is he recording on? I’m curious.

@furnitureconsortium

3 жыл бұрын

@@dd212NYC my guess would be either an 8mm home movie camera or a 16mm home movie camera. I can’t remember when the 16’s were put into production, but the 8mm cameras have been around since the late 1930’s or so. There’s private 8mm footage taken during the War (WWII) by both the Nazis and the Allied Forces, so the technology is at least as old as when this bridge collapse happened in Tacoma.

@KalOrtPor

3 жыл бұрын

@@dd212NYC He was a camera shop owner and had access to equipment that was not commercially popular at the time, including color film. This is 16mm color Kodachrome, he and his co-owner used Bell & Howell Filmos to record, which also saw extensive use during WWII.

@dd212NYC

3 жыл бұрын

@@KalOrtPor very cool. Thanks for the info.

should've used the flex tape

@michcomics9068

4 жыл бұрын

THAT A LOTTA DAMAGE!

@JAHISRAEL

4 жыл бұрын

Flex tape or glue would have made it fall down on a sunny day

@bacononroblox1341

4 жыл бұрын

Nikola Tesla r/whooosh

@equal4268

4 жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t that just make it more bendy

@lauriejackson8351

4 жыл бұрын

Looks like they did use flex tape

I'm no expert, but I don't think bridges are supposed to do that.

@EvilWizard236

4 жыл бұрын

@Derektrainman 03 r/wooosh

@mylesknowles8814

4 жыл бұрын

Joe Barth Learn what r/wooosh means

@amorfm4071

4 жыл бұрын

dave4248 a dog died...

@yoruhernandez403

4 жыл бұрын

Derektrainman 03 actually no that’s not what happened

@yazovgaming

4 жыл бұрын

@dave4248 actually no a dog died in that car that was on the bridge

There's something so eerie about watching a bridge sway and twist like that. Concrete shouldn't bend like that, but here it is happening on video. It's fascinating for sure, but so unnerving at the same time.

@stefanodegerome5586

Жыл бұрын

Kinda disturbing for sure.

@destinedtobedifferent9921

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I'm shook to my core

@Awardeez

Жыл бұрын

The music really adds a more ominous and mysterious vibe Without it and have the original sounds, I feel it would be more chaotic and scary. But dont have an eery feeling

@ns7353

Жыл бұрын

This perfectly natural for a bridge, we have the best steel here In America, we’ve got five months and I’ll expect another 500 before we have any problem. Galloping Gertie is working In the wind but she’ll hold

@sinenomine5921

Жыл бұрын

@@ns7353 how can a broken bridge hold?

Thank you for that. I was born in Tacoma 14 years after the collapse, however my mother had told me that she remembered going over the bridge with her father on a weekly basis to meet his friend who lived in Bremerton and that the bridge would rise and sink so much that the car in front of them would appear and disappear between the peaks and troughs. As I understand, this was the way the bridge was designed to function, however on that day there were some unusual crosswinds which caused the bridge to resonate sideways for a substantial period of time which was never expected to happen and caused the collapse.

@bubblesnot

Жыл бұрын

I remember my grandma telling me the same thing, you'd see oncoming headlights and then you wouldn't. Boggles my mind that it was nothing out of the ordinary to them at the time.

@mariosaccoccio1688

3 ай бұрын

That was not the original design. It was going to be a 4 lane bridge, but they decided to go with 2 lanes & changed the structural properties of the original design.

Everybody gangsta till the bridge starts dancing

@reppolf1970

4 жыл бұрын

@@cattoispro lol

@lloyd8965

4 жыл бұрын

Bro😂

@andrewmarino5441

4 жыл бұрын

Very well said sir.

@johncesarvillar3079

4 жыл бұрын

Indeed...

@kendusince1978

4 жыл бұрын

Factz!!!

Guy calmly walks off of the bridge like he's taking a stroll through the park

@ThatWeirdDude40

4 жыл бұрын

Legend says his balls were made of steel.

@KazKasozi

4 жыл бұрын

Foolish rather than brave me thinks.

@Pharry_

4 жыл бұрын

T h i s i s f i n e

@kornelijuskortkiss1243

4 жыл бұрын

👏👏👏kamikaze

@imjustsayingtho1464

4 жыл бұрын

Kaz Kasozi me thinks you a pussy

What's really incredible to me is just how much the bridge was able to bend and twist WITHOUT collapsing. Yes, the design flaws that allowed that resonance to occur are what caused the collapse, but the sheer flexibility of it was remarkable. It had been positively gyrating like that for some time before finally failing completely.

@siuuu336

7 ай бұрын

In that year, there no editing

Life is weird, that professor Farquharson guy was just driving on a bridge one morning then all the sudden gets stuck in this once in a universe situation that will leave him remembered as a selfless hero for hundreds maybe thousands of years after he’s gone.

me: asphalt is bendable friend: no ’shows this video’

@guillermogouldburn763

5 жыл бұрын

Josefina Edlund when concrete is laid in sections, each section suspended by cables, and then covered with asphalt it can appear to be bendable. It's just an illusion. It's really each section doing its own thing.

@giorgiopereira6742

5 жыл бұрын

The word is flexible

@lnefty

5 жыл бұрын

@Skank Hunt2 Heh "freind"

@hullian1113

5 жыл бұрын

Bit of an odd statement to say to your friend. Liked just for that.

@hawkiedev4324

4 жыл бұрын

Area 51

My mother was a 14 year old teenager when that bridge fell and actually saw the whole thing happen from her best friends bedroom window. She said it looked like ribbon falling.

@someguy943

4 жыл бұрын

Oof

@shiningstarz1150

4 жыл бұрын

how old is your mother?

@someguy943

4 жыл бұрын

@@shiningstarz1150 bruh he said that shes 14 year old dumba**

@thomasbrooks8112

4 жыл бұрын

@@shiningstarz1150 Mom passed away in 2008 but she was born in October 1926.

@shiningstarz1150

4 жыл бұрын

@@someguy943 i was asking how old she IS, because this was in 1940 and he said his mother was 14 so i thought that was pretty old, dumbass

To those wondering. The dog did not survive. His name was Tubby. Three people tried to save the dog but were unsuccessful. There was a professor who managed to grab the dog, but the dog snapped and bite his index finger. And so the professor had no choice but to leave for his own safety. Tubby and the car were never recovered. RIP Tubby❤️.

@thochaos13

3 жыл бұрын

Awww, my dog was named Tubby too. RIP Tubbys.

@akiragreyce2068

2 жыл бұрын

fiquei muito triste agora eu realmente esperava que ele tivesse sobrevivido... que ele descanse em paz

@janethagaman1998

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this information, I was so concerned for the dog and those who tried to save him. They are true heroes who tried their best to catch the damn dog.

@hermanngottschewski8444

2 жыл бұрын

I guess the dog regretted to have done so a "bit" later ...

@SUPERSPAZD

2 жыл бұрын

😞

In memory of tubby, the dog that perished in the collapse, he was never found

@Gojo-bud001

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck i was interested in this now im sad and mad

@matthewjeffery6481

3 жыл бұрын

At least it was one less dog for the postie to worry about 😁

@lizxu322

2 жыл бұрын

Noooo TUBBYYYY😭😭😭😭

@matthewjeffery6481

2 жыл бұрын

People getting upset about a dog that died 81 years ago 😂

@Thesodaisinfactblue2

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewjeffery6481 it is a living thing, Not an object dude :/

The music makes the video creepy

@Miafjdd

8 жыл бұрын

ikr??

@AFSienko

8 жыл бұрын

Aliens

@kaixuanliu105

7 жыл бұрын

the video itself looks like a tragedy yet speechless about the bgm...

@ArwinKraats

7 жыл бұрын

very cool tho :)))))))))))))))))

@adrim888

7 жыл бұрын

Sorta creepy... its mesmerizing

This video really resonates with me. I watch it frequently.

@OzzyOscy

8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Slick Wow, that's the same for me too! I think we're simply harmonic.

@amoor9308

7 жыл бұрын

only civil engineers will know what you mean

@Luke_Danger

7 жыл бұрын

Or any engineer that talks about resonant frequency... [/Joke killed by an engineering student]

@billyray5344

7 жыл бұрын

ya boys a highschool junior taking Physics and i understand whats going on...

@amoor9308

7 жыл бұрын

you wanna be a high school junior without knowing what resonance mean ? but again, who needs physics when you got Swaaaaag, right?

I live in Belgium, I am 65 years old; I remember seeing this phenomenon on Belgian television in the 60's and I couldn't believe it so much it impressed me, I must have been 6 or 7 years old. It must have been a program on disasters. I did not know until later that it was a serious defect in design. The Golden Gate must have been better designed since it still exists and is well maintained.

Literally the Golden Gate in every Hollywood movie

@travisfurber1368

3 жыл бұрын

Same guy designed it

@Boz1211111

3 жыл бұрын

I still dont get it how did it move so much when other simar beidges do not

@KKelly-ng1ni

3 жыл бұрын

Hell, Magneto rerouted it.

@josephbrown5460

3 жыл бұрын

@@Boz1211111 Everything has a resonance frequency, and when the vibrations caused by the wind match the resonance of the bridge, it became unstable. If you take a finger and rub it around the rim of a wine glass you'll hear it vibrate, and if you do it faster the tone will get higher, slow your finger down and the tone gets lower. Once the vibrations match the resonance of the wine glass, it will shatter even though you're not pushing down hard.

It amazes me every time to see how flexible concrete can be.

@michaelhayden1400

10 жыл бұрын

That's what I'm thinking pretty crazy!

@Lejcitheklosar

10 жыл бұрын

The steel gives the flexibility. :)

@ravi3shekh1

9 жыл бұрын

its actually the steel inside with concrete mask, steel is very flexible on longer spans.

@emilclick

2 жыл бұрын

But there is no one concrete, is only steel.

@Brady_Stewart_238

Жыл бұрын

It looks like a noodle bending 😮

Weather: Gets a little windy Tacoma Narrows Bridge: tHeY gRoOvInG

@michellem2854

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@johnuthus

3 жыл бұрын

tacomans be like: RaCE Ya cRoSs ThE Bridge

So for all those who might be wondering what is happening, the bridge is at resonance that is the forced frequency and the natural frequency of the bridge becomes equal and thus the amplitude of the vibration increases making the bridge sway and dance!

@andymellor9056

5 ай бұрын

Actually incorrect. The cause is aeroelastic flutter. It is a kind of resonance, but the frequency is not a resonant frequency of the bridge itself. The force of the wind blowing over the leading edges of the bridge causes an eddy underneath the span. The eddy results in a pressure drop causing lift on the bridge. As the bridge tilts due to the lift force the eddy intensifies causing further lift, until the eddy breaks up and the leading edge of the bridge moves back down. Because the leading edge has momentum it doesn't stop when it gets to it's starting position and moves past it's rest position and tips the other way. The eddy is now created on the top face of the bridge pushing the leading edge down. This cycle is repeated. Look at the video and you will see the bridge deck twisting. Before failure a suspension cable snaps, temporarily purring the bridge in a different mode of vibration, which led to it's destruction.

I love how after this they not only rebuilt it but they made another one right next to it. The Tacoma narrows bridge has 2 parts now. One for incoming and one for outgoing traffic.

@SGSP3

3 ай бұрын

They made sure to design it correctly this time, with air passages and a more rigid base. It's a miracle this lesson had to be learned with only a dog and a car being lost

It looks so creepy when it sways

@Reckless_Metal

4 жыл бұрын

The bad quality, the black and white, the music, windy... yeah creepy...

@trishthefish1536

4 жыл бұрын

It looks like someone is gonna kill someone

@frostedcherrikookie1848

4 жыл бұрын

@@trishthefish1536 it looks like i want to get on the bridge.

@japanfanatic1415

3 жыл бұрын

@@Reckless_Metal it's in color

@equal4268

3 жыл бұрын

It’s just eerie

I think Tacoma Narrows is credited for having brought the concept of resonance into structural engineering. To me, the interesting part of this is that if the winds had been a little stronger, this bridge would not have collapsed that day. But the wind was blowing at just the right speed to set up a resonant wave in the bridge. It's a bit like swinging your legs back and forth on the swing set as a child - swing them too fast, and you go nowhere.

@carlossmith7043

10 ай бұрын

Wrong. They know about the ressonance problems since Napoleon days. Any troops will NOT march while crossing any bridge, due to exactly the same effect noticed on Tacoma Narrows Bdg. They know the concept since centuries ago, despite of it, mistakes will always happen sometime and somewhere.

My teacher showed us this video in class 10ish years ago. I am now terrified of crossing bridges and have to mentally prepare myself the day before when I have to cross one while driving

@_goldengames_6897

Жыл бұрын

My teacher showed our class that and I was surprised that it was In Tacoma, Washington since i have family there and i crossed there exactly the same image just new, my fear is the bridges doing that tho too 😭

@teresahaven9222

5 ай бұрын

What I find ironic, maybe even haha funny, I've known about this bridge and the collapse for as long as I can remember. (I turned 60 a couple weeks ago). My mom talked about it. I've seen the video several times. Never bothered me crossing a bridge until the bridge in Mt Vernon. I should have been on it that day

For some reason, The Music makes the video pretty eerie. As the bridge falls.

There’s something bizarrely beautiful about this. Considering how fluid all the materials are before the collapse, the bridge’s length, the curve of the suspension arcs all make it seem like a living breathing organism or organ.

@karolakkolo123

2 жыл бұрын

It looks like what a bridge would probably look like on shrooms lmao

what's always amazed me about this footage is not that it eventually collapsed but how long it survived such violent twisting.

My mom actually saw the bridge fall. My dad said that before the bridge fell when you drove over it in the wind, the car lights in front of you disappeared. He also said there was a bank in Tacoma at the time who had a big Billboard that said "We Are As Safe As the Narrows Bridge!" . . . . After it fell, they took the sign down ;-).

@Dorothy.Vivian

9 ай бұрын

What a cute story, that you made up.

That car has amazing parking brakes and traction. All that swinging and the car didn't move until the entire bridge collapsed. It is like the car was welded to the road.

@SGSP3

3 ай бұрын

An ironic example of good vs bad engineering lmfao

Don’t worry folks. This will not happen again, fixed in the 2019 update.

@Pharry_

4 жыл бұрын

Wait you didn’t knock on wood

@kydro3494

4 жыл бұрын

The bridge is actually rebuilt and has more lanes and everything. I used to live in Gig Harbor (where the Tacoma Narrows bridge went to)

@Bigsui31

4 жыл бұрын

may i remind you that a dog died

@ellalauck8502

4 жыл бұрын

😂

@GoddessShazza711

4 жыл бұрын

@@Bigsui31 I was wondering about that. I didn't see the dog. How tragic!!

The engineer's looked at the bridge afterwards and thought, " If we just made this bridge just a little more flexible, I think we could have pulled it off".

@brucegordon7248

4 жыл бұрын

RIP Tubby. That was the professor's little cocker spaniel that refused to come out of the car. The dog was the only casualty.

This is so oddly disturbing. The way that shit moves still gives me chills after all these years.

80 years ago today; absolutely amazing! I’ll never forget Method of Sections, Method of Joints, and the free body diagram from Statics class! Bend that metal back-and-forth, heating it up significantly due to the internal friction, and the modulus of strength then goes way down. Before long a rigid structure can’t even support its own weight not even factoring in the additional force the winds continue to apply.

@edwardperez7665

2 жыл бұрын

It's called the Magic of Harmonic Motion. On a weak link.

@drews5569

2 жыл бұрын

The motion of the bridge is that of a driven oscillator. Keep in mind that very few things remain rigid if enough force is applied. ;) But this bridge was designed by Leon Moisseiff to be the most flexible bridge ever built. He didn't realize how that design criteria - being super flexible - would cause this harmonic oscillation problem.

Good thing they painted a solid line down the middle to keep it safe.

@grapes5672

4 жыл бұрын

*Sun fucking explodes* You: "Wow those traffic cones really prevent death don't they huh."

@camcordernonsense5264

4 жыл бұрын

@@grapes5672 It is amazing

@zak46

3 жыл бұрын

Stand on that line if you don't want to swing.

@camcordernonsense5264

3 жыл бұрын

@@zak46 the paint is so sturdy it'll be the only thing left across with collapse.

@evita6208

3 жыл бұрын

The Golden Gate Bridge only got its first center divider a few years ago. Before it, workers in a truck moved pylons by hand throughout the day to aid traffic flow.

When I see how much torsion this structure went through before it failed it gives my a lot of reassurance that other suspension bridges can take equal or greater punishment.

@camperking6444

Ай бұрын

Hahahahaha

The collapse was not just a tragedy, but also an improvement in bridge engineering design. They learned it firsthand.

Watching this blows my mind. It's not like it took really high winds to do this. It would happen in moderate winds. It's just odd seeing something like that flex in that way, especially when there isn't ridiculously high wind causing it..

@JunkyardSpile

3 жыл бұрын

I can't tell if that first bit was a pun or not but I'm digging it.

@joshuastonefish

2 жыл бұрын

It was noise I believe which caused it to collapse.

I don't know why but there is something about that bridge swaying like that that fascinates me, I can't take my eyes off of that image

@Steven-lt2dm

8 жыл бұрын

yhea its weird

@vipersrt30

8 жыл бұрын

+plazasta the music plays a role into that i think

@plazasta

8 жыл бұрын

MyOwnSoul looking at other videos of the disaster I totally agree with that, the music plays a major role

@rwoz

8 жыл бұрын

+plazasta It's weird looking at large man made constructions look and behave in ways they weren't intended for. I think watching an abandoned city invokes similar feelings.

@skyhunk

8 жыл бұрын

+rwoz Well, it wasn't designed to collapse on purpose, but it was designed/intended to flex as most bridges are, and do, in response to many things such as heating and cooling, and wind conditions.

we've come a long way since building bridges out of spaghetti

@lucia-zg9bk

9 жыл бұрын

FunOrange We have

@assassinkitty466

9 жыл бұрын

concrete don't bend

@lucia-zg9bk

9 жыл бұрын

That can be argued, but this is not just concrete.

@lucia-zg9bk

9 жыл бұрын

assassin kitty 46 the bridge was designed in a way that made it move.

@dobb673

8 жыл бұрын

+FunOrange Make no mistake. We think we're "soooo smart" and we're past something like this. Sure. Long high bridges are completely insane. They'll keep going down, just like Minne 2007 and those since. Trying to get in nature's face too much. And I'm a techie capitalist.

It always terrified me driving across the 405 bridge through Portland into Vancouver because it's so high up in the air and it "moves". While stuck in traffic, especially when it's foggy out, it's TERRIFYING being stuck on that bridge.

@oakgrovejason3269

Жыл бұрын

yeah your talking about the fremont bridge? yeah I dont like that one or the Marquam bridge.

@ejammy1906

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more!

This is the original footage, shot in colour on 16mm Kodachrome stock at 16fps. Any copies you see in black and white were made for distribution as newsreel stock, by MGM, who bought the rights. They made the mistake of think it was shot at 24 fps, so all the black and white version run approx 50% faster than real time. The guy at 2:37 is Professor Frederick Burt Farquharson, an engineer from the University of Washington who had been involved in the design of the bridge, he went to rescue a dog called Tubby, a cocker Spaniel, left in the abandoned car by his owner, Leonard Coatsworth. However, the dog was terrified and bit him, so he left it, and it subsequently Tubby was killed when the bridge platform collapsed into the ravine, the only casualty of the collapse.

I wonder what kind of sounds that thing was making. Must have been severely eerie.

@ImranJ14

9 жыл бұрын

Probably really loud banging and metallic squeaking noises.

@10Exahertz

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Beadle great now im dying to know what it sounded like

@MannyKunV

8 жыл бұрын

+Jake Beadle prolly sounded like explosions at the base of the building

@nutsackmania

8 жыл бұрын

+MannyKunV you mean like at building 7

@MannyKunV

8 жыл бұрын

nutsackmania ayy lmao

I read about it in my Physics book , people must have found it so strange when they saw the bridge move and then collapse like that.

@mido3071

7 жыл бұрын

resonance :D

@obc1500

7 жыл бұрын

Since you are "people", you tell me. Did you find this so strange?

@NotThatMaryElizabeth

7 жыл бұрын

obc1500 I would have, if I hadn't known that it was due to resonance.When it happened a lot of people probably didn't know what caused it and found it strange.

@mido3071

7 жыл бұрын

+obc1500 nothing is strange after u learn quantum mechanics xD

@blake6948

7 жыл бұрын

The views...

KZread recommended me a video from USNA about chaos theory and the man mentioned this bridge. Here I am at 42 yr old learning about wobbly things.

Same thing happens to everything I buy as soon as the warranty expires.

@maazkalim

3 жыл бұрын

Bwahahahahaha!

And that, folks, is why physics is important

@liaputeri7022

6 жыл бұрын

AydarBMSTU IKR

@spacewhale8279

6 жыл бұрын

AydarBMSTU yep

@chatteyj

5 жыл бұрын

Did they keep the concrete pylons when rebuilding the bridge?

@Joshua79C

5 жыл бұрын

This had more to do with aerodynamics

@meghansullivan6812

5 жыл бұрын

AydarBMSTU we watched this video in my hs physics class haha

the forces acting on that bridge must've been truly immense, i'm amazed it held together for as long as it did (a few hours if i recall)

@davidpayne4310

4 жыл бұрын

Open for traffic for 5 months, actually. It started swaying while it was being built.

@AmericanIdiot7659

4 жыл бұрын

The wind gusts were the same frequency as the bridge as said in this video: kzread.info/dash/bejne/onp5pJKcmMzbeqQ.html at 8:13 he said that the wind gusts and the frequency of the bridge was the exact same and it made that.

@VintageTechFan

4 жыл бұрын

@@AmericanIdiot7659 That's a common misconception. The wind was strong, but fairly constant this day .. and that actually was what enabled this design flaw to become fatal. The bridge was well designed for all expected loads, but not very strong against torsion (twisting). So the wind came out of an direction which made it twist a little, the now twisted bridge is even more sensitive to wind, so it twists more, becomes more sensitive to twisting .. until the airflow stalls. Then it swings back to the middle, overshoots a little, and the wind pushes it in the other direction .. it swings back again ... and cycle repeats. Like a reed in a musical instrument, the fairly constant airflow made the bridge oscillate on its natural frequency. It did until the structure failed due to fatigue effects. Wind gusts are no way precise enough to hit the resonant frequency for hours. It was a self-sustaining oscillation, powered by constant wind. Stuff like that was only understood beginning in the 1980s, when we got enough computing power to simulate it .. and it still occasionally leads to problems, since the possible oscillation modes can be very complex and dependent of very minor factors which you left out of the simulation for it to finish in a reasonable amount of time.

@GH-oi2jf

4 жыл бұрын

Nitro Engine Hoarder - That’s correct. A self-sustaining oscillation under (roughly) constant airflow.

@razorfox3968

4 жыл бұрын

No they were not immense, the bridge was just poorly built to resist torsional loads. The bridge broke at only a load of 42 mph.

I was shown this in my fifth grade “Challenge” class (gifted and talented) and I still come back to it four years later. Extremely fascinating.

@BeachBear64

3 ай бұрын

Yeah

I remember learning about this bridge at school. Our teacher said thrill seekers used to drive onto it because it was like riding a roller coaster.

R.I.P. Tubby. You will never be forgotten.

@JuniorAviation2017

5 жыл бұрын

chairmanmeow1973 as if that dog wouldn’t live up to the millennium

@ilovedogs6249

5 жыл бұрын

chairmanmeow1973 at least they tried to save the poor dog

@Scotty_J.

5 жыл бұрын

Correct, his legend lives on to this day :-)

@blizzard1646

5 жыл бұрын

chairmanmeow1973 dern I didn’t know the dog died

@shaidynbenoit7253

4 жыл бұрын

Rip Mr dog slash tubby

That's good video quality for being 1940.

@dtxspeaks268

8 жыл бұрын

That's the power of modern day computers

@nutsackmania

8 жыл бұрын

+Mike Peterson It's just 8mm Kodachrome not surprising at all

@vernletts7114

8 жыл бұрын

dhfuj fyi hhtuj

@vernletts7114

8 жыл бұрын

dhfuj fyi hhtujI. jcgjjhygg

@MisterL2_yt

7 жыл бұрын

lol its actually 1940

In 1965 when I was 5 or 6 I saw this footage on a loop at a pizza parlor. I’ve never been the same since.

It survived way longer than I could imagine..

i didnt even know it was possible for a bridge to do that.

@IRONMANAustralia

8 жыл бұрын

Neither did the guys who designed it. That was the problem. Now we all know.

@1peter1180

8 жыл бұрын

+Quoc Le the wind speed was at the same frequency as the bridge natural frequency and the wind couldn't pass thru the bridge causing it to sway

@00tonytone

8 жыл бұрын

+IRONMANAustralia there is a word for this it was mentioned in skywalk documentary

@wouterdebois7958

8 жыл бұрын

+Tony Micel Resonance.

@aarghj1

8 жыл бұрын

+Quoc Le It’s not possible, thats why the bridge collapsed.

Who knew that concrete was that flexible?

@lithiumdeuteride

7 жыл бұрын

Civil engineers.

@maxilexow

7 жыл бұрын

Not the ones that built that bridge

@JCESG400

7 жыл бұрын

You clearly have no idea what you're talking about.

@maxilexow

7 жыл бұрын

Juan Cardenas who are you talking to?

@apdemic4574

7 жыл бұрын

it's not, the concrete already ripped apart everywhere. it was only held together by the steel within the concrete.

Rest in peace tacoma narrows bridge 1940 - 1940

That music alone is enough to collapse any bridge that was ever built..

Why are people saying it's fake or have something to do with a conspiracy? It's got something to do with the frequency, learn science.

@RIGeek.

9 жыл бұрын

Nikola Tesla designed a device that would exploit mechanical resonance.

@luigymrobles

9 жыл бұрын

Hey guy i am currently studying this phenomenon, i know why it happens, but this looks kinda exagerated, it's hard to believe that it is this way... Is this video real?

@RIGeek.

9 жыл бұрын

luis martin robles 100% real video footage. It was swaying beyond all mechanical limits until it caused the failure. No CGI, nothing is exaggerated at all.

@luigymrobles

9 жыл бұрын

Wow just amazing...

@dalton788

9 жыл бұрын

Ahem! The resonance!

This bridge collapse has always fascinated me. The amount of energy required to bend steel and concrete like it’s nothing more than putty is crazy.

@aditya-ml6km

Жыл бұрын

Welcome to the world of aeroelasticity. It is just science.

I feel bad for the dog who was abandoned by his owner. Then the professor who tried to rescue it was bitten by it because it was terrified. My heart aches thinking about that little dog :(

Tacoma narrows bridge: I will be the best bridge in the world! Weather: hold my beer

@Mahalakshmi-Khan

3 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@maazkalim

3 жыл бұрын

So it was the weather who was intoxicating the bridge by incitement?

@FLUNTER

3 жыл бұрын

This is not a hold my beer…okay whatever

In Grade 10 physics, in 1969, we watched this video. The lesson was the natural resonance of materials. Part of the lesson had to do with WW2, and how soldiers had to break cadence as they marched across bridges. Physics is amazing, and a part of our everydays lives, even though we don't know it!

These old clips always freaks me out

I heard a story about this and legend has it that a mysterious cryptid known as the Mothman could’ve caused the bridge to wobble like that.

@ceazclair137

3 жыл бұрын

Thats the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant Virginia! This one is in Tacoma, Washington. Wrong bridge collapse!

I first saw this video a long time ago when I still was a kid, and I randomly found this again.

This one haunts my dreams...may that doggie rest in peace....

@DixieSchizo

3 жыл бұрын

Dog was enjoying the ride

@Saiputera

3 жыл бұрын

I can't see anything tho

@mareotodd1318

3 жыл бұрын

Fuck that dog

@libyan521

3 жыл бұрын

Shut up dude if your a dog hater keep that in your head 98% of people like dogs than cats

@libyan521

3 жыл бұрын

I'm a dog lover and a cat lover

build a bridge, they said, i'll be fun, they said.

@kaarinapolly2293

10 жыл бұрын

ikr

@kaarinapolly2293

9 жыл бұрын

Natalie D. I don't think anyone think its funny

@usedtogiveadamnbutnevergav1960

9 жыл бұрын

Ok thank you

@judzos

9 жыл бұрын

Natalie D. Thats true, that Aint funny at *ALL* so if u are on it, u will fall in to the water, drown, and die, Well they said that the will *Never Ever EVER* do this again but for a bridge they have to make it a bit moving, so if its Solide Solide, if a car goes there, the bridge will break and fall and the guy will drown and die

@kaarinapolly2293

9 жыл бұрын

Euan Gethin lol its a horrible way to die if you don't die from impact you'll die from drowning XD

2:45 The closeup view makes this bridge swarving even more scarier.😲😳

I’m here because the same guy who built that bridge built the Francis Scott key bridge which they had to reenforce all for a cargo ship to crash into it causing it to collapse all happening this morning

Twenty five years ago, my friend and I were on the Pacific Coast Train from LA to Seattle. The conductor announced we were approaching the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Most passengers ignored the announcement. We, (both Ph.D. mathematicians) were excited. We knew the history.

@MatthewNugentmonty54

3 жыл бұрын

That underside view from Amtrak on the Coast Starlight is Amazing.

Prof. Farquharson is walking that swinging bridge like a goddamn science ninja.

@thetrueamerican707

6 жыл бұрын

LordQwert NANI?!

@RuminatingKiwi927

6 жыл бұрын

the true american omae wa mo shindeiru

@richardfinegold2480

5 жыл бұрын

The footage looks like it's sped up there. (16 fps shown at 24 fps speed instead of at 16 fps speed) Edit: yep, see time-corrected video 13J76PXE6OA at 01:23

@GlennaVan

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, read the Wikipedia article about it. It discusses that.

I watched it in my class, and I had the feeling that this video is so eerie.

This collapse has actually helped make modern suspension bridges a lot safer.

Here is an interesting fact. The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge was designed by Leon Moisseiff, the guy who designed the Manhattan Bridge in New York City when it first opened in 1909, and it was his first project long before this. The Manhattan Bridge is the first suspension bridge to travel by cars, with two lanes on each upper level, three lanes on lower and also carries subway trains on the lower level of each span between the three lanes. Manhattan Bridge still stands today, after that, he designed the George Washington Bridge, Triborough (aka Robert Kennedy) Bridge, Bayonne Bridge in New Jersey, Ben Franklin Bridge in Philadelphia, PA, Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA, and the Bronx Whitestone Bridge right up until this ill-fated bridge opened in 1940 and then collapsed four months later due to high winds.

@msheza

8 жыл бұрын

I live in Astoria, Oregon and we have the big Megler Bridge that crosses the Columbia into Washington. There's also that tall huge bridge that goes into Longview, WA off if highway 30. Do you know if these are related so to speak to the same guy that built the Narrows & Manhatten? Thanx!

@thegoonies5599

8 жыл бұрын

+michelle hooper That must be awesome that you live in Astoria, I always wanted to see the house from The Goonies and the film museum in the police building.

@roryszwed9420

8 жыл бұрын

It's totally worth it. Astoria is an amazing place. Visit the OFM and see what other movies have been filmed there. Then climb the Column.

Guy left the car because car stalled. Dog wouldn't come. Man was old and crawled to land, bruised and bloody. Dog still refused to come as the man was not his owner. Rescue team tried. Dog bit the rescuer. Dog abandoned to die. Poor doggy.

@jasonburrell3508

4 жыл бұрын

lol

@brianbelton3605

4 жыл бұрын

A German Shepherd would listen, and save its' family.

@sebluthy2300

4 жыл бұрын

that dog had it comin yikes

@julioalvesjulio5741

4 жыл бұрын

He refused to be saved sooo yeah

@ellalauck8502

4 жыл бұрын

😭😭

When i was younger, i used to watch this video on repeat and it gave me such a bad feeling. Idk why i kept watching it, it honestly still scares me.

the music is scary, like a scary natural phenomenon

5:38 For some strange reason the bridge is closed, lol.

@vickynix2380

8 жыл бұрын

XD lol

@bri4625

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah I wonder why

@KeithThedfordII

5 жыл бұрын

@XxblackgamerxX Gaming r/woosh

@thrillermiller7301

5 жыл бұрын

Yea IKR!! Stupid morons closed it so I’ll be late for work now! Pfft

@KeithThedfordII

5 жыл бұрын

@@dancetomlover99abandoned98 No, why?

Fucking Professor Farquharson strolling down the bridge with a pipe in hand. That's class.

@beachside1

7 жыл бұрын

epic..........lol great comment

Passing this bridge every day and can’t believe that it happened here!

I was talking to my dad about my fear of bridges, and while we were ON A BRIDGE, he told me THIS story 😭

@SimpleAviation55

3 жыл бұрын

parents at it again...

Happened 74 years ago to the day. LOVE this video it just stays with you and I know no one agrees but I think the music fits perectly

watching this now feels so weird. I remember when I was little (I’m 15 now) i was obsessed with watching this for some reason. I remember the music so clearly

When it said "Total Collapse", I guess I was expecting a little more total.

@MatthewNugentmonty54

3 жыл бұрын

Well the video doesn't quite show it all. But pretty much anything that wasn't the towers or connected to land fell. Which is a large portion of a suspension bridge.

@seansheppard3619

2 жыл бұрын

How fatal?

@MatthewNugentmonty54

2 жыл бұрын

@@seansheppard3619 1 dog was killed when it refused to get out of the car with its owner. No humans were killed directly by the collapse (I think a few were injured by the thrashing)

The bridge turned into a giant wing in the wind. The guard rails created a low pressure zone on the bridge making it dip and twist, and then ultimately thrashing itself apart.

@adampearce1824

2 жыл бұрын

I'm from England. I studied Aeronautical Engineering. Wrote my Dissertation on this phenomenon. The Random Decrement Technique. The wind or gale coincides with the natural frequency of the bridge. Same thing used to happen occasionally to planes in the sky. And the plane would start vibrating to the point where the wings of the aircraft would rip themselves apart. All sorted now thankfully through testing.

what caused the bridge to make the music?

@PetarStamenkovic

10 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the music?

@daniel91pereira

10 жыл бұрын

Petar Stamenkovic its generic bullshit by really untalented keyboard player

@bjowolf225

10 жыл бұрын

"Water under Troubled Bridge" ? ;-)

@jessicagold83

10 жыл бұрын

Petar Stamenkovic I wish I knew its awsome

@PetarStamenkovic

10 жыл бұрын

***** Thank you! Great music!

In 2006 I was in the 4th grade and I remember we had a technology teacher that would come into our classroom sometimes and I remember watching this and thinking the music was kind of scary, but I watched it again a few times again within the next few years. I thought the video was cool to watch but the music bothered me all the same. Then I saw this again when my 8th grade teacher showed this to us because of a unit we were starting, and same thing. That creepy music was brought back into my head again. Nowadays, it doesn't weird me out as much but I still get some of the same feeling I used to. I don't know why, but listening to this music while watching this video always made me feel uncomfortable. It's like it makes watching the bridge sway in itself seem eerie.

The guy that left his dog sucks. The guy who tried to save the dog is super brave. Very sad that he couldn’t.

@flyingfist1

Жыл бұрын

Dog attacked him while he tried saving it so he left

This is the year 2023 and im still watching this. The most terryfying thing 😢😢😢

2:30 He's walking rather calmly under the circumstances.

Why did someone leave their car on the bridge? Why did they leave their dog in the car if they got out? Poor doggies must have been terrified.

@Starkesea

7 жыл бұрын

He attempted to recover it as well as a rescue team. The dog was terrified and bit the rescue team

@Magyar_Huszar

7 жыл бұрын

the car broke down probeply

@richardbeasley991

5 жыл бұрын

.

@darcy5474

5 жыл бұрын

@@Starkesea there was no rescue team!

@satsuii9458

5 жыл бұрын

He left his dog there sadly

The age of the video, the music and how cursed the situation looks scares me.

When 1940 footage is better than some footage in 2021