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.
Man jumps off Monroe Street Bridge. SPOKANE, Wash. - The Monroe Street Bridge is now re-opened after police spent more than 20 hours negotiating with a man that would not get off the bridge. The man who appeared to be in his 30's, died after jumping off the bridge around 3:30 p.m. Friday. His name and the reason he was on the bridge have not been released. The towering bridge carries four lanes of traffic over the Spokane River, near the Federal Building.