AMES, Iowa – The windshield wipers barely keep up. Thunder overhead. Lightning. Power conductor cables rise and fall in waves, like giant jump ropes. Up ahead, traffic signals hanging from cables also ...
Engineers still study the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which fell into Puget Sound 83 years ago this month. The project to build the original span during the 1930s was $6.4 million. “It was ...