THE VAJONT DAM: An engineering masterpiece that killed 2,000 people. скачать в хорошем качестве

THE VAJONT DAM: An engineering masterpiece that killed 2,000 people.

#Vajont #Disaster #EngineeringFailure We are accustomed to believing that technology is a shield against nature. That precise calculations are enough to tame mountains and rivers. The Vaiont Dam was a triumph of engineering thought. Two hundred sixty-one meters of concrete, calculated to the millimeter. It held. It stands to this day—untouched, perfect, empty. But on October 9th, 1963, five villages vanished in four minutes. One thousand nine hundred seventeen people dead. The dam did not collapse. The water simply found a path where the engineers did not look—over the top. Two hundred forty meters of water at seventy kilometers per hour. A white wall taller than the Statue of Liberty. Longarone met it in darkness. Invictus remembers what others preferred to blame on the elements.