99 Percent Invisible - Galloping Gerdie

Please listen to the podcast and answer the following questions: (submit answers to your ePortfolio)

1. Who labelled the Tacoma Narrows Bridge "Galloping Gurdie"?

2. What design change caused the Tacoma Narrows Bridge to fail?

3. What casualties did the collapse of the bridge cause other than the bridge itself?

A Cheer for Samuel Plimsoll

1. What is a moral hazard? How does this affect ships?

2. What did the Merchant Shipping Act of 1876 require?

3. What is an eponym? How does it apply to this podcast?