Embarrassing Moments in Engineering

Posted by Miss Cellania in Architecture, Mentalfloss on April 10, 2008 at 9:47 am


tacoma_narrows

Don’t you just hate it when you spend millions of dollars for a large construction, only to find out there is something fundamentally wrong underneath? Oh yeah, especially when the failure becomes apparent during a big public grand opening. It happens, and mental_floss has a look at four cases of embarrassing (and expensive) mistakes in huge projects. Link


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7 comments to "Embarrassing Moments in Engineering"

  1. tabest
    April 10th, 2008 at 10:58 am

    You're Fired!!

  2. empty-minded
    April 10th, 2008 at 1:40 pm

    I hope the project manager cashed his last paycheck before total systems failure.

  3. Christophe
    April 10th, 2008 at 2:01 pm

    Don't forget the slab of concrete that fell on a car in Boston's Big Dig.

  4. CheeseDuck
    April 10th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

    Ouch.

  5. Thomas
    April 10th, 2008 at 3:15 pm

    I'd never heard of the japanese airport on the water. Neat idea, but seems doomed to fail.

  6. Alannah
    April 11th, 2008 at 12:57 am

    LeMessurier had a hell of a lot of guts and probably saved a whole lot of lives. Good man.

  7. Will
    April 13th, 2008 at 9:59 pm

    As an aside, the design flaw that doomed the Tacoma Narrows bridge recently inspired budding inventor Shawn Frayne to conceive the Wind Belt concept for harnessing wind energy. I encourage tinkerers, greenies and the like to look it up and check it out.


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