by tjb | Jun 22, 2023 | Author's Posts
Rats Chicago, Illinois…Los Angeles, California…New York, New York…Washington, DC…San Francisco, California…Baltimore, Maryland… Philadelphia, Pennsylvania…Detroit, Michigan…Denver, Colorado…Cleveland, Ohio; as a...
by tjb | Jun 13, 2023 | Author's Posts
St. Francis Dam * The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in Los Angeles County, California, United States, built from 1924 to 1926 to serve Los Angeles’s growing water needs. It catastrophically failed in 1928 due to a...
by tjb | Jun 7, 2023 | Author's Posts
Subway Cars * The engineering group of one of the largest subway systems in America was jumping for joy! The City Council had approved the budget request for the design and manufacture of 30 new subway cars! The Project Mission was to design and build a fleet of...
by tjb | Jun 1, 2023 | Author's Posts
Kemper Arena * The Kemper Arena opened in 1973 as the new home of the Kansas Kings basketball team. Because the roof was suspended from above, it featured uninterrupted sight lines. The innovative design earned the architect an Honor Award from the American Institute...
by tjb | May 24, 2023 | Author's Posts
Apollo Fire * One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral. They were...
by tjb | May 18, 2023 | Author's Posts
Chernobyl * The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on April 26, 1986 at the #4 reactor in the Chernobyl Power Plant, near the city of Pripyat in the north of the Ukrainian SSR in the Soviet Union. Called the world’s worst-ever civil nuclear...
