How the Bay Model Stopped the San Francisco Bay Dam
Tom Scott · Explainer · 5 min · 2016 · YouTube title: This giant model stopped a terrible plan
Why it's here
HN recommends it as a short, fascinating story of a scale model preventing a terrible engineering decision.
What it covers
Tom Scott tells how John Reber's plan to dam San Francisco Bay was disproved by the Army Corps of Engineers' giant hydraulic Bay Model in Sausalito. The model showed the plan would have been dangerously wrong.