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Kanopy
Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach
Summary
In December 1915, United States Industrial Alcohol (USIA) built—without any formal engineering design—a massive cylindrical steel tank along Boston's North End waterfront to store incoming shipments of molasses. When the tank ruptured three years later, 21 people died. Explore the phenomena of metal fatigue and brittle fracture and learn what role they played in the Great Boston Molasses Flood.