The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges connect the city of Tacoma …

Tacoma Narrows Bridge, suspension bridge across the Narrows of Puget Sound, connecting the Olympic Peninsula with the mainland of Washington state, U.S. The original bridge, known …

Find out how to pay tolls, and what the toll rates are for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Tolling on the SR 16 Tacoma Narrows Bridge helps repay the costs to build the second span of the …

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between …

Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st.

Nov 13, 2009 · The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington during the 1930s and opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, …

The collapse of the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge stunned everyone, especially engineers. How could the most "modern" suspension bridge, with the most advanced design, suffer …

The original Tacoma Narrows Bridge failed dramatically in a windstorm on November 7, 1940, four months after opening. The lessons in aerodynamics learned from this failure generated …

Feb 1, 2022 · The first design for the Tacoma Narrows Bridge by the Washington Toll Bridge Authority was by Clark Eldridge, an engineer for the state. It was a conventional suspension …

Mar 9, 2019 · In July 1940, the Tacoma Narrows bridge opened to traffic between Tacoma, Washington and the Kitsap Peninsula. At the time, it was the third-longest suspension bridge …