Top 10 Worst Engineering Mistakes

Top 10 Worst Engineering Mistakes

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Top 10 Worst Engineering Mistakes
As we all know, the engineering world has seen some great achievements by contributing immensely towards changing the face of the earth with their engineering masterpieces. Engineers have been known for pushing the boundaries of scientific invention and exploration and leading us to a simplified way of living. However, these same engineers are only humans and are prone to making mistakes. Engineers carry huge responsibilities over their shoulders, and their mistakes are nothing like an everyday work mistake of forgetting to save your document or sending the wrong email. When their blunder fails, it fails miserably, and most of the time, it costs human lives and great financial loss. Just a slight miscalculation can cause a huge disaster. Nevertheless, these disasters have been studied by future engineers to learn from the mistakes and improve the way of making for our future engineers. Without further ado, let’s take a look at Top 10 worst engineering Mistakes.
10. The Hindenburg Disaster
The Hindenburg Airship was made in Germany, and at that time was heralded as the future of luxury air travel. It was the pride of Germany until May 6, 1937, when the airship caught fire and crashed as it attempted to land at the Naval Air Station in New Jersey. The disaster took away the lives of 36 people that included the passengers and crew members. How fatal? I mean, the Airship looked fine before landing, so what was it that brought it down? Some people said that it was sabotaged since it happened two years before World War II, but there was no evidence found, but rather, it’s said that an electrostatic discharge led to the ignition of the leaking hydrogen that started the fire. This theory was supported by the fact that the airship had burned and not exploded. There was also a thunderstorm while it was landing that led to electrostatic discharge. Years later as the engineers were trying to gather information on what happened, one airship historian, Dan Grossman, stated that the mistake they made with the Hindenburg airship was inflating it with hydrogen. As we all know, hydrogen is a dangerous and highly flammable gas. It’s now confirmed that it was the hydrogen combined with bad weather at Naval Air Station that took the airship down. Sadly, after the Hindenburg disaster, no passenger airship has ever been made. It ended the airship era. But who knows, maybe some genius engineer will come up with one. It’s not the end of the world yet!
9. The Collapse of The Quebec Bridge
The Quebec Bridge was the world’s largest cantilever bridge ever made during that time. It probably still is and has its name in the National Historic Site of Canada with its span of 1,801 feet. After twenty years in the making, the Quebec Bridge collapsed for the first time in 1907, and the second time, in 1916. In 1907, the disaster killed as many as 88 workers, and only 11 workers survived. They investigated the disaster and found out that the main cause of the bridge’s failure was due to the improper design of the latticing on the compression chords. They decided to rebuild it for the second time making the lower chords of the cantilevers arms several times stronger than before. However, in 1916, it collapsed again and the middle span fell into the river. This time, 13 workers lost their lives. It was reconstructed again in 1917 and to this date, it still stands strong.
8. The Titanic
Titanic was the largest passenger ship ever built in 1912 and one of the most well-known engineering disasters in the world. It weighed 46, 000 tons, and it was over 800 feet in length. It is known to have sunk after a collision with an iceberg and claimed the lives of more than 2000 people on board. If you have watched the Titanic film then you can imagine how tragic it was. The British ship was supposed to go to New York from Southampton. After it’s sinking, that was caused by the collision with an enormous iceberg, the engineer researchers had questions. It became a matter of analysis and investigations of how fast it sank. They discovered that the rivets were made up of low-quality iron, and as much as it was impressed in its mass, safety was not the primary focus during its construction. These were concluded, after finding that one row of the safety boats was removed from the original design. This was done with a mission to allow for more space and a better view for passengers with first-class berths

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