PickVidsThe Disaster That Changed Engineering: The Hyatt Regency Collapse
Why it was recommended
Grady from Practical Engineering has a great explainer of what went wrong
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What it covers
A Tom Scott guest video by Grady Hillhouse of Practical Engineering on the 1981 Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. A seemingly minor change to the support design led to. It is for a general viewer who does not plan to take a prerequisite first.
Video details
- Channel
- Tom Scott
- Length
- 4 min 21 sec
- Year
- 2017
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