Dino... Thanks for posting this. The tower segment of the show was
interesting. There is a Texas A&M engineering ethics case study based on the
1982 Senior Road tower (Missouri City, TX) failure that was depicted in the
History Channel story. It can be found on the web at
http://ethics.tamu.edu/ethics/tvtower/tv3.htm#introduction
While some of the case study is "hypothetical", there are numerous mpegs and
stills of the actual tower failure on the site. The mpeg titled "Failure"
shows the antenna prior to and during the actual failure of the bolts
holding it up. There were two (three?) persons riding the antenna at the
time of the failure according to the History Channel segment. They rode the
antenna to their death, snapping a guy cable on the way down, leading to the
collapse of the tower.
I suspect this info may have been posted here in the past, but it might be
of interest to those who have not yet seen it.
Larry Wi5A
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Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 12:18 PM
To: wara@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TowerTalk] Tower Collapse!
Tonight on the HISTORY channel's "Modern Marvels", they will do a segment on
a tower collapse as well as some other fantastic engineering failures.
Towers are DANGEROUS and you should watch this if you have a chance!
Modern Marvels
Tuesday, December 30 @ 10pm ET/PT
Engineering Disasters 5
Examines some of the most notorious engineering failures of recent years and
asks what went wrong and what we learned from them. We take viewers to the
southern coast of Louisiana, where a misplaced oilrig caused an entire lake
to be sucked into an underground salt mine; review the 1972 Buffalo Creek
dam disaster; revisit the Exxon Valdez oil spill; see how radio and TV
antenna towers collapse with alarming regularity; and look at the collision
of 2 California icons--freeways and earthquakes! TV PG
Dino...k6rix@earthlink.net
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