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 2 drawings |  35 b&w photos |  31 data pages |  4 photo caption pages |  2 color transparencies |
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TITLE:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge, Spanning Narrows at State Route 16, Tacoma, Pierce County, WA
CALL NUMBER:
HAER WASH,27-TACO,11-
REPRODUCTION NUMBER:
[See Call Number]
MEDIUM:
Measured Drawing(s): 2 (34 x 44 in.)
Photo(s): 35 (4 x 5, 4 x 5 in., and 5 x 7 in.)
Data Page(s): 30 plus cover page
Photo Caption Page(s): 4
Color Transparencies: 2
DATE:
Documentation compiled after 1968.
CREATOR:
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
RELATED NAME(S):
Hadlow, Robert W., Historian
Lowe, Jet, Photographer
NOTE:
Survey number HAER WA-99
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N189).
Building/structure dates: 1950 initial construction
Significance: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was the first suspension span constructed in the United States after its predecessor's failure in 1940 from wind-induced torsional oscillations. Research of design flaws in the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge led to the use of aerodynamic testing as a standard procedure in suspension span structural analysis, including studies for its replacement.
SUBJECTS:
WASHINGTON--Pierce County--Tacoma
COLLECTION:
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
REPOSITORY:
Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGID:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.wa0453
CONTENTS:
Photograph caption(s):
1. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE IN PERSPECTIVE LOOKING WEST FROM THE MILLERS ADDITION SUBDIVISION
2. SAME VISTA WITH SUBDIVISION IN FOREGROUND
3. LONG SHOT ELEVATION FROM SOUTH; NOTE SWAY BRACING CONNECTING LOWER PART OF TOWERS TO ROADWAY TRUSS, SOME BROKEN MEMBERS CAN BE SEEN
4. GENERAL VIEW OF EASTERN APPROACH AND ROADWAY
5. EASTERN PORTAL AND ROADWAY IN ELEVATION LOOKING NW
6. EASTERN APPROACHES SEEN LOOKING SE FROM TOP OF EAST TOWER
7. ROADWAY AND WESTERN TOWER AS SEEN FROM EASTERN TOWER WOLFGANG MAYR SUMMER ICOMOS INTERN ON CABLE FOR SCALE
8. ESSENTIALLY SAME SHOT AS ABOVE WITH WIDE ANGLE LENS AND CAMERA POINTED MORE DOWN
9. WEST SIDE OF EAST TOWER CAMERA POINTED STRAIGHT DOWN FOR THE BENEFIT OF ACROPHOBICS; NOTE EXTREMELY TURBULENT WATER FROM CURRENT
10. CABLE SADDLE, EAST TOWER LOOKING NORTH
11. OVERALL VIEW OF THE ROADWAY TRUSS LOOKING EAST
12. HAND HELD VIEW LOOKING WEST ALONG ROADWAY TOWARD EASTERN TOWER
13. EASTERN TOWER IN ELEVATION
14. DETAIL EASTERN TOWER LOOKING UP
15. ROADWAY AT CENTER OF SPAN NOTE ANTISWAY BRACING ATTACHED TO CABLE
16. VIEW UP SOUTH CABLE LOOKING EAST (VIEW TAKEN WITH PHOTOGRAPHER SITTING ON THE CABLE FOR STABILITY WHILE HANDHOLDING A 4X5 TECKNIKA CAMERA)
17. VIEW LOOKING EAST TOWARD EASTERN TOWER OF CABLE HALFWAY UP
18. WOLFGANG MAYR STANDING AT UPRIGHTS FOR THE CABLE RAILING LOOKING WEST
19. BRIDGE PERSPECTIVE FROM WESTERN BANK OF NARROWS LOOKING EAST
20. ORIGINAL UNREPLACED APPROACH FROM FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE
21. BASE OF EASTERN TOWER (TOWER 5) LOOKING NE
22. DAMPING MECHANISM TOWER 5, LOWER STRUT
23. DAMPING MECHANISM, CENTER SPAN, SOUTH SIDE OF ROADWAY (HANDHELD VIEW)
24. DAMPING MECHANISM, CENTER SPAN CAMERA HELD OUTSIDE OF RAILING
25. DETAIL ELEVATION OF DAMPING MECHANISM NEAR CAR RAIL
26. SOUTHEAST CABLE ANCHORAGE WITHOUT MEASURING STICK
27. SOUTHEAST CABLE ANCHORAGE WITH MEASURING STICK
28. VIEW OF CABLE SPLAYING WHERE CABLE COMES INTO ANCHORAGE, SE ANCHORAGE
29. ANCHORAGE EYEBARS WHERE INDIVIDUAL STRANDS GOT WOUND INTO CABLES
30. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, LOOKING EAST THROUGH TOLL LANES, 29 AUGUST 1940. (ELDRIDGE, CLARK H. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FINAL REPORT ON DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, 1941)
31. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, LOOKING WEST ACROSS TOLL PLAZA, 29 AUGUST 1940. (ELDRIDGE, CLARK M. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, TACOMA, WASHINGTON, FINAL REPORT ON DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION, 1941)
37. ORIGINAL UNREPLACED APPROACH FROM FIRST SUSPENSION BRIDGE
32. VERTICAL OSCILLATIONS, 3/4 VIEW, 7 NOVEMBER 1940, FROM 16MM FILM SHOT PROFESSOR F.B. FARQUHARSON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. (LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (SEATTLE: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, 1941)
33. VERTICAL AND TORSIONAL OSCILLATIONS, 3/4 VIEW, 7 NOVEMBER 1940, FROM 16MN FILM SHOT BY PROFESSOR F.B. FARQUHARSON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. (LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (SEATTLE: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, 1941)
34. VERTICAL AND TORSIONAL MOTION VIEWED FROM EAST TOWER, 7 NOVEMBER 1940, FROM 16MN FILM SHOT BY PROFESSOR F.B. FARQUHARSON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. (LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON (SEATTLE: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, 1941)
35. VERTICAL AND TORSIONAL MOTION FROM EAST TOWER SHOWING ANGULAR DISTORTION APPROACHING 45 DEGREES WITH LAMP POSTS APPEARING TO BE AT EIGHT ANGLES, 7 NOVEMBER 1940, FROM 16MN FILM SHOT BY PROFESSOR F.B. FARQUHARSON, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. (LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE, AT UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SEATTLE: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING, 1941)
36. TACOMA NARROWS BRIDGE IN PERSPECTIVE LOOKING WEST FROM THE MILLERS ADDITION SUBDIVISION
CONTROL #:
WA0453
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