Quebec City / Ottawa / Pittsburgh / Laval / New York / Phoenix / Melbourne / Phoenixville / /
Company
Phoenix Company / Schreiber / Keystone Bridge Company / Phoenixville / Puget / Quebec Bridge Company / Phoenix Bridge Company / /
Country
Australia / /
Currency
GBP / USD / /
Event
Person Travel / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Sixth Street Bridge / Seekonk Bridge / Quebec Bridge / Silver Bridge / Rensselaer Institute / Ingwall Hall / St. Louis Bridge / West Gate Bridge / West Virginia University / University of Maryland / Second Avenue Bridge / Bridge Failure Out The building / McGill University / /
IndustryTerm
computer technology / tortured steel / energy / metal / twisted metal / prospective contractors / steel spread / steel / metal fatigue / steel manufacturing / bridge builder / data processing maxim / preventive tool / /
NaturalFeature
Ohio River / Manhattan Island / Lawrence River / /
Organization
Engineering Performance Information Center / United States Naval Academy / Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics / University of Maryland / Canadian government / Ontario Ministry of Transportation and Communications / McGill University / Structural Office / Navy / American Society of Civil Engineers / Royal Commission of Inquiry / Rensselaer Institute / American government / Cooper / West Virginia University / Architecture and Engineering Performance Information Center / Royal Commission / Department of Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics at McGill University / /
Person
Theodore Cooper / Robert Douglas / Peter Szlapka / Ulric Barthe / James Eads / John Deans / Andrew Carnegie / John Tarkov / Edward A. Hoare / Tacoma Narrows / S.N. Parent / Norman McLure / E.L. Edwards / Philip J. Harris / Donald Vannoy / Emory Kemp / Roger Dorton / John Sterling Deans / /
Position
Captain / young engineer / president / assistant engineer / physician / chief engineer of the Department / chief design engineer / recently graduated engineer / secretary / superintendent / engineer / general foreman / Professor / responsible engineer / responsible engineer at the site / field engineer / civil engineer / personal representative / chief engineer / inspector / professor of civil engineering / independent consulting engineer / director / consulting bridge engineer / consulting engineer / own chief engineer / engineer in department / /
A Disaster in the Making It took only fifteen seconds for the massive south arm of the Quebec Bridge to fall into the St. Lawrence River in 1907, but the prelude to the catastrophe began years before.