As components of an automobile chassis, struts can be passive braces to reinforce the chassis and/or body, or active components of the suspension.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses due to high winds on this day in 1940. Fortunately, only a dog was killed. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington during the 1930s and opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.It spanned the Puget Sound from Gig Harbor to Tacoma, which is 40 miles south of Seattle.The channel is about a mile wide where the bridge crossed the sound.he Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapses due to high winds on this day in 1940. Fortunately, only a dog was killed. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in Washington during the 1930s and opened to traffic on July 1, 1940.
In the summer of 1888, when Tacoma was just a frontier town, a drunken logger brought a bear cub to the corner of 8th and Pacific, where he began kicking him to get him to perform tricks. A crowd soon gathered, and tried to stop him, but he refused. The Justice of the Peace was summoned, and the logger was arrested. Later that week, a group of town leaders met to form the Tacoma Humane Society â only the fourth such organization in the nation. For the first few decades, the Humane Society concentrated on protecting livestock, working animals, and children.