Nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” for its tendency to bend and undulate, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge had just opened to traffic on ...

It had opened just 4 months prior as the world's largest suspension bridge, but it soon gained the nickname Galloping Gertie due to its swaying in the Puget Sound winds. Eventually, strong winds ...

Washington’s four-month-old Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses on November 7, 1940. Known as “Galloping Gertie” for its vertical ripple in a breeze, the span begins twisting laterally in the ...