Saturday, June 10, 2006

Ten Memorable Engineering Failure

This is the top 10 most stupid and memorable engineering mistakes made throughout the history.

  1. St. Francis Dam, 1928
  2. Kansas City Hyatt walkways, 1981
  3. Vasa, 1628
  4. Northeastern US power grid, 1965
  5. McDonnell Douglas DC-10, 1970s
  6. Firestone 500 tires, 1970s
  7. Purity Distilling Company tank, 1919
  8. Skylab, 1973
  9. Citigroup Center, 1978
  10. R101 airship, 1930


More information could be read at Stupid Engineering Mistakes and List of famous failures in science and engineering.

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