Epic Engineering Failures and the Lessons They Teach

Learning from Failure: Three Vignettes

Documentary Jun 22, 2023 35 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

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S1 E1: What does a 19th-century British railway disaster have in common with the 21st-century destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans? All were engineering failures that resulted in important improvements in the engineering process. Discover the very human issues that contributed to poor engineering decisions in these three cases, with disastrous consequences.

Documentary Jun 22, 2023 35 min The Great Courses Signature Collection

TV-PG

Information

Released: 2023
Run Time: 35 min
Rated: TV-PG

Languages

Original Audio: English
Audio: English (AAC), English (United States)
Subtitles: English (CC)

Accessibility

: Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.