On Nov. 7, 1940 — 85 years ago Friday — the Tacoma Narrows Bridge twisted and danced in a 40 mph windstorm and then collapsed. The failure of a bridge only four months old was a spectacular lesson for ...

I DECIDED TO go a little bit outside the North Olympic Peninsula for this month’s column. In the early years of the 20th century, there were great advancements in structural engineering. Advances in ...