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Monday, January 03, 2005

Bridges

I've been teaching Introduction to Technology (ITT) at the grade 9 level for two years now and one of the chapters deals with structures, namely, bridges and bridge building. I was looking all over last year for footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse to show to my class. I remembered watching a video of it in Physics in high school and being impressed with the effects of wind on the structure. I try to bring some element of real life into my classes and this video clip would've been great. Unfortunately I didn't find a copy of it for last year except for online and thumbnail pictures. (Both video clips are QuickTime. RealVideo and AVI formats can be found here.)

Jon, knowing the fascination I have for bridges, forwarded this link to me this morning. It's got some amazing and beautiful suspension bridges. These are not only functional, but are also practical and can very easily be said to be works of art.

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