Best for: People interested in engineering disasters. In a nutshell: In the 1870s, the first of its kind bridge was erected across the Tay river firth to Dundee, in Scotland. 18 months after it opened, it collapsed during a severe windstorm, taking a train with 75 passengers and crew down with it. Worth quoting: “It was the Victorian age, and life and death had Purpose. There could be no disaster without a moral.” Why I chose it: I think I might have a new book […]