There is a show on Prime called Epic Engineering Failures. Anybody watch this? I watched a few episodes and it’s been interesting to me. Content and the presentation is not bad (not as dry as it could have been). I like this kind of stuff.

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There is a show on Prime called Epic Engineering Failures. Anybody watch this? I watched a few episodes and it’s been interesting to me. Content and the presentation is not bad (not as dry as it could have been). I like this kind of stuff.

I've checked out Epic Engineering Failures on Prime! It's pretty cool, right? I'm into that kind of stuff too. They manage to make it interesting without getting too technical.

Started to watch it tonight.
So far it moved quickly enough to keep your interest but give an understandable analysis.

The part about analyzing the steps that cause failure are valuable tools for determining what and why things outside of engineering go bad.

Not just to fix the immediate problem but to determine why things go wrong to prevent future occurrences. Analysis or the process.

Great find!

That's a "Great Courses" course, available free with Prime.

I’ve been watching the series as well. It’s put together nicely and has a good thought process behind it. Several of the events were case studies for me when I did my degree in mechanical.

I really like most of the demos. Simple yet conceptually effective and really complements the verbiage. Seeing is much easier to understand than just words, especially in the place of jargon. I've never even heard of some of the words he uses.

Also interesting are stuff like the different sections of churches. Never knew that different areas of a church had different names. The gothic building are impressive.

There are a few of these out there, Engineering Catastrophes is on the Science Channel, similar stuff, things that were built/designed wrong and failed..

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History Channel has Engineering Disasters

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I around the fourth or fifth one.
Maybe those of us that like it are the engineering nerd types, I am, and the methods of analysis are interesting to me.
A surprising aspect is that the ones from the last century were more through than I would have expected for the times.
He explains each study in simple enough terms that people without an engineering background will understand, but still detailed enough to be interesting.

That sounds like a series worth watching. Reminds me of that old film reel of some suspension bridge hitting it's fatal resonance frequency. That video is pretty creepy.

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old film reel of some suspension bridge hitting it's fatal resonance frequency

Tacoma Narrows bridge. (Turn off/down your sound if random piano sounds annoy you...)

That’s one of the cases. Interesting what the real cause was.