While collecting this short list of engineering disasters, I decided that to qualify as a disaster, an event had to involve loss of life, and the larger the loss of life, the larger the disaster ...

The field of engineering evolves daily. The marvels of engineering far outweigh the failures/disasters.

Two decades ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, submerging a major American city, claiming nearly 1,400 lives, and displacing one million people. The storm was a turning point in how the ...

io9 Sinking Ships, Exploding Airships, and Collapsing Bridges: The Dumbest Engineering Disasters By Alasdair Wilkins Published November 30, 2010 | Comments (0) 𝕏 ...