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The other, virtually crawling part of the way to the safety of the east tower. >> another person trying to escape from the bridge that day is professor bert farquharson. >> professor bert farquharson was a professor of engineering at the university of washington and he was an authority on bridge structures. so when clark eldridge and lacey murrow became concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired bert farquharson to conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, dr. farquharson sets up film cameras a few weeks after the bridge opens to capture its movements. several weeks later...

Pieces. >> very early in the process, in fact before construction began, the lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movements. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issues an in-depth bridge studies...

>> he was continually being thrown to the pavement and staggering off to one side or the other, virtually crawling part of the way to the safety of the east tower. >> another person trying to escape from the bridge that day is professor bert farquharson. >> professor bert farquharson was a professor of engineering at the university of washington and he was an authority on bridge structures. so when eldridge and lacey murrow became concerned about how much this bridge might move, they hired bert farquharson to conduct some studies. >> as part of his study, dr. farquharson sets up film cameras a...

It literally shook it self to pieces. >> very early in the process, in fact before construction began, the lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movement. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issu...

The lead engineer was very concerned about the bridge, so he began to help initiate studies by the professor at the university of washington that began to closely examine the bridge's movement. >> remedies are attempted before and after the bridge opens. >> they added cable tie downs at each end of the bridge on the approach spans. they did a good job of holding the approach spans in place. but the rest of the bridge across the center span still moved a lot. >> professor farquharson also issued an in-depth bridge study and presents two more options to stabilize the bridge, just five days befor...