FAILUROLOGY
A case study on engineering failures
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 26 minutes
- Episodes
- 100
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2024
Ep 135 Mini Failure 49 Artemis
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Artemis Project. It’s not really about a failure, but as our last mini …
00:24:45 |
Sun 25 Aug 2024
Ep 134 Titan Submersible
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Titan Submersible. A relatively small carbon fibre vessel that imploded…
00:15:52 |
Sun 18 Aug 2024
Ep 133 Mini Failure 47 1955 Le Mans Crash
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the 1955 LeMans Crash. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport his…
00:17:22 |
Sun 11 Aug 2024
Ep 132 Mini Failure 46 Vasa Ship
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Vasa Ship which sank 1.3km into its maiden voyage.
Original Air Date: …
00:17:05 |
Sun 04 Aug 2024
Ep 131 Mini Failure 45 Therac-25
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Therac-25. A radiation therapy machine that was supposed to help people …
00:09:36 |
Sun 28 Jul 2024
Ep 130 Mini Failure 44 Bay Bridge Hydrogen Embrittlement Failure
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the hydrogen embrittlement failure of the Bay Bridge between San Francisco …
00:17:38 |
Sun 21 Jul 2024
Ep 129 Mini Failure 43 Cheesegrater - Hydrogen Embrittlement
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the hydrogen embrittlement failure at the Cheesegrater building in London, …
00:13:32 |
Sun 14 Jul 2024
Ep 128 Mini Failure 42 MF 42 Alexander Kielland Flotel
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Alexander Kielland Flotel. In 1980 the floating hotel (flotel) capsized, ki…
00:08:14 |
Sun 07 Jul 2024
Ep 127 Mini Failure 41 Eigiau and Coedty Dam Failures
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Eigiau and Coedty Dam Failures. A pause in construction led to a catast…
00:08:04 |
Sun 30 Jun 2024
Ep 126 Mini Failure 40 DeLorean
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the DMC DeLorean. A car that would have likely been forgotten if Marty McFl…
00:22:25 |
Sun 23 Jun 2024
Ep 125 Mini Failure 39 Pemberton Mill
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Pemberton Mill. In 1860, the mill collapsed and then caught on fire in …
00:11:00 |
Sun 16 Jun 2024
Ep 124 Mini Failure 38 Granville Train Derailment
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Granville Rail Disaster. A poorly located bridge support and wooden rai…
00:10:11 |
Sun 09 Jun 2024
Ep 123 Mini Failure 37 Cypress St Viaduct
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Cypress St Viaduct. A double decker freeway that served as one of the a…
00:11:09 |
Sun 02 Jun 2024
Ep 122 Mini Failure 36 Frank Slide
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about Frank Slide. In the middle of the night in 1903, part of the town of Frank w…
00:14:09 |
Sun 26 May 2024
Ep 121 Mini Failure 35 New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel in New Orleans. During construct…
00:13:21 |
Sun 19 May 2024
Ep 120 Mini Failure 34 Juliana Bridge Crane Collapse
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Juliana Bridge crane collapse in Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands. A po…
00:12:38 |
Sun 12 May 2024
Ep 119 Mini Failure 33 Sudbury Effect
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Sudbury Effect. Undoing a century of damage, little by little and what …
00:14:11 |
Sun 05 May 2024
Ep 118 Mini Failure 32 PFOA/C8 Contamination
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about PFOA/C8 Contamination (Dupont Scandal). PFOA has been poisoning living creat…
00:14:03 |
Sun 28 Apr 2024
Ep 117 Mini Failure 31 Asbestos
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about asbestos. Deadly little fibers that are in seemingly everything and can lay …
00:16:11 |
Sun 21 Apr 2024
Ep 116 Mini Failure 30 Bhopal Gas Leak
We’re releasing episodes from our mini failure library while we’re on production hiatus.
This week’s Mini Failure is about the Bhopal Gas Leak disaster in India. Due to malfunctioning safety systems…
00:14:30 |
Sun 14 Apr 2024
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