But things slowed down tremendously when the roof came up. To close, every petal had to...
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But things slowed down tremendously when the roof came up. [narrator] To close, every petal had to fit together perfectly. But it seems reality didn't quite match the magical design plans. When they brought
'em in without...
without being motorized, they tried it
and got it to come together, no matter how they tried, there was a hole left. [narrator] The problem had engineers stumped. And local sports fans were sure the resulting dela would cost them big. Delays were causing
the city to panic because, here they were trying to bid
for these particular games, but they could not put
their bids in with the roof
not working correctly
'em in without...
without being motorized, they tried it
and got it to come together, no matter how they tried, there was a hole left. [narrator] The problem had engineers stumped. And local sports fans were sure the resulting dela would cost them big. Delays were causing
the city to panic because, here they were trying to bid
for these particular games, but they could not put
their bids in with the roof
not working correctly
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But things slowed down
tremendously when
the roof came up.
00:00:04.096 --> 00:00:09.678
[narrator] To close,
every petal had to fit
together perfectly.
00:00:09.068 --> 00:00:14.918
But it seems reality
didn't quite match
the magical design plans.
00:00:14.096 --> 00:00:17.958
When they brought
'em in without...
without being motorized,
00:00:17.096 --> 00:00:20.718
they tried it
and got it to come together,
00:00:20.793 --> 00:00:23.758
no matter how they tried,
there was a hole left.
00:00:24.056 --> 00:00:27.158
[narrator] The problem
had engineers stumped.
00:00:27.016 --> 00:00:31.758
And local sports fans
were sure the resulting dela
would cost them big.
00:00:32.084 --> 00:00:36.598
Delays were causing
the city to panic because,
00:00:36.006 --> 00:00:39.718
here they were trying to bid
for these particular games,
00:00:39.076 --> 00:00:44.398
but they could not put
their bids in with the roof
not working correctly.
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Movie Summary
With access to all phases of design and a large cast of experts, some of the great failures of engineering history are uncovered.
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