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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 with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait. Historically, the name "Tacoma Narrows Bridge ...
The 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, the first bridge at this location, was a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. It opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and dramatically collapsed into Puget Sound on November 7 of the same year. [1]
Location. The 1950 Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a suspension bridge in the U.S. state of Washington that carries the westbound lanes of Washington State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) across the Tacoma Narrows strait, between the city of Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula. Opened on October 14, 1950, it was built in the same ...
November 6, 1970. The Armistice Day Blizzard (or the Armistice Day Storm) took place in the Midwest region of the United States on November 11 (Armistice Day) and November 12, 1940. The intense early-season "panhandle hook" winter storm cut a 1,000-mile-wide (1600 km) swath through the middle of the country from Kansas to Michigan. [4][5]
Golden Gate Bridge. Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge of 1940. Awards. Louis E. Levy Medal in 1933. Leon Solomon Moisseiff (November 10, 1872 – September 3, 1943) [1] was a leading suspension bridge engineer in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. He was awarded The Franklin Institute 's Louis E. Levy Medal in 1933.
Tacoma Narrows. Coordinates: 47.28°N 122.54°W. The Tacoma Narrows separate the South Basin of Puget Sound from the Central Basin. Map of the Tacoma Narrows. The Tacoma Narrows as viewed from Tacoma, facing northwest towards the Kitsap Peninsula. The towers for the 2007 Tacoma Narrows Bridge are under construction in this photograph; the 1950 ...
March 13, 2024 at 7:26 PM. A suspect wanted on rape charges in Kitsap County was presumed dead 15 years ago after jumping from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge -- until two neighbors found out the wanted ...
Notes. ^ The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge held the record of the longest bridge span in the world from 1964 to 1981.[1] ^ At the time of its opening in 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest and the tallest suspension bridge in the world,[4] titles it held until 1964 and 1998 respectively.