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This is a list of engineering blunders, i.e., gross errors or mistakes resulting from grave lack of proper consideration, such as stupidity, confusion, carelessness, or culpable ignorance, which resulted in notable incidents. Deepwater Horizon oil spill caused by a faulty blowout preventer.
Pages in category "Engineering failures" The following 85 pages are in this category, out of 85 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Engineering disasters;
After Hunley's death, the Confederates resurfaced the ship for another mission that proved fatal for its own crew: the successful sinking of the USS Housatonic during the American Civil War. The feat made the H. L. Hunley the first submarine to sink an enemy warship in wartime. Karl Flach (1821–1866) was a German living in Valparaiso, Chile ...
Year Structure Location Type Casualties 226 BCE: Colossus of Rhodes Collapse: City of Rhodes, Island of Rhodes (now Greece) Statue: 27: Fidenae amphitheatre collapse: Fidenae, Italia, Roman Empire: Amphitheatre: 20,000+ dead ca. 27–30: Tower of Siloam: Jerusalem, Judea, Roman Empire Tower: 18 dead 140: Upper tier collapse of the Circus Maximus
Engineering disasters often arise from shortcuts in the design process. Engineering is the science and technology used to meet the needs and demands of society. [ 1 ] These demands include buildings , aircraft , vessels , and computer software.
The main reason Jobs isn’t worth more is because of a wrong move he made. After butting heads with Apple’s then CEO John Sculley, Jobs was ousted from Apple. He proceeded to sell all but one ...
Typos can do more than damage the credibility of a publication. Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for ...
Pages in category "American engineers" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 311 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.