Boats and trains,Dams and bridges,Engineered to work…or fail. An overloaded Mississippi River steamboat explodes, killing 1169 Union prisoners heading home from notorious Andersonville Prison, making barely a ripple in the newspapers during the closing weeks of the Civil War. Flawed designs by self-proclaimed experts caused the horrific 1879 Tay railway bridge collapse and costly 1940 … Continue reading CATASTROPHES & HEROES of man-made disasters, by Jerry Borrowman (book review)