The day a wave of molasses swept through Boston

· 11 sources

In January 1919 a storage tank in Boston's North End burst and released 8.7 million litres of molasses.

11 sources

The tank 3

  1. 1 Boston Molasses Disaster wikipedia.org 0:42

    ArticleWikipedia

  2. 2 Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 penguinrandomhouse.com 1:15

    BookBeacon PressStephen Puleo1 Sep 2003

    The standard history; chapters 3–5 on how the tank was built and never tested.

  3. 3 Purity Distilling Company tank — hearing transcripts mass.gov 2:03

    ArchiveMassachusetts Archives

The wave 4

  1. 4 Molasses Flood: Scientists explain why it was so deadly nytimes.com 4:35

    ArticleThe New York TimesJess Kessler26 Nov 2016

  2. 5 Revisiting the 1919 Boston molasses flood (APS Division of Fluid Dynamics) meetings.aps.org 5:10

    PaperAmerican Physical Society21 Nov 2016

    Cold air made the molasses thicker as it spread, trapping people.

  3. 6 Weather Bureau daily map, 15 January 1919 weather.gov 5:48

    GovernmentNational Weather Service

  4. 7 Boston Post front page, 16 January 1919 loc.gov

    ArchiveLibrary of CongressArchived copy

After 4

  1. 8 The Great Molasses Flood — 100 years later smithsonianmag.com 7:22

    ArticleSmithsonian Magazine11 Jan 2019

  2. 9 Boston's Great Molasses Flood (documentary) archive.org

    VideoInternet Archive

  3. 10 Massachusetts building code history, 1919–1923 mass.gov 8:10

    GovernmentCommonwealth of Massachusetts

  4. 11 North End fatality records, January 1919 (dataset) data.boston.gov

    DataCity of Boston