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After the Alarm
by After the Alarm
Forgotten disasters and engineering failures, told from the record: bridges that fell, dams that broke, ships that sank, and the chain of decisions behind each one. One case a week, about half an hour, built on the official inquiries and contemporary sources. The narrator's voice is synthetic (AI). Selection, research, writing and checking are done by a person.
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The Weesp Embankment
On 13 September 1918 the railway embankment leading up to the bridge over the Merwede Canal near Weesp slid away beneath the morning express from Amersfoort to Amsterdam. Forty-one people died in the wooden carriages. The inquiry traced the failure to water trapped inside a sand embankment, and…
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Molare 1935
On 13 August 1935 a record storm filled the Ortiglieto reservoir above Molare in eight hours. The main dam held; a smaller secondary dam, added late in the project to close a saddle in the ridge, was overtopped and collapsed, sending the reservoir down the Orba valley through Molare and the Borgo...
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The Quebec Bridge
The longest cantilever span ever attempted was bending in the summer of 1907, and the men on it could see it. A telegram that said stop reached the wrong office. At half past five on 29 August the south half went into the St. Lawrence in fifteen seconds, killing 75 men. Nine years later the…
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Forgotten disasters and engineering failures, told from the record: bridges that fell, dams that broke, ships that sank, and the chain of decisions behind each one. One case a week, about half an hour, built on the official inquiries and contemporary sources. The narrator's voice is synthetic (AI). Selection, research, writing and checking are done by a person.
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Forgotten disasters and engineering failures, told from the record: bridges that fell, dams that broke, ships that sank, and the chain of decisions behind each one. One case a week, about half an hour, built on the official inquiries and contemporary sources. The narrator's voice is synthetic (AI)....
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