The day a wave of molasses swept through Boston
In January 1919 a storage tank in Boston's North End burst and released 8.7 million litres of molasses.
11 sources
| # | Source | Type | Website | Date | In video | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The tank 3 | ||||||
| 1 | Boston Molasses Disaster Wikipedia | Article | wikipedia.org | 0:42 | ||
| 2 | Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 Beacon Press · Stephen Puleo The standard history; chapters 3–5 on how the tank was built and never tested. | Book | penguinrandomhouse.com | 1:15 | ||
| 3 | Purity Distilling Company tank — hearing transcripts Massachusetts Archives | Archive | mass.gov | 2:03 | ||
| The wave 4 | ||||||
| 4 | Molasses Flood: Scientists explain why it was so deadly The New York Times · Jess Kessler | Article | nytimes.com | 4:35 | ||
| 5 | Revisiting the 1919 Boston molasses flood (APS Division of Fluid Dynamics) American Physical Society Cold air made the molasses thicker as it spread, trapping people. | Paper | meetings.aps.org | 5:10 | ||
| 6 | Weather Bureau daily map, 15 January 1919 National Weather Service | Government | weather.gov | 5:48 | ||
| 7 | Boston Post front page, 16 January 1919 Library of Congress Archived copy | Archive | loc.gov | |||
| After 4 | ||||||
| 8 | The Great Molasses Flood — 100 years later Smithsonian Magazine | Article | smithsonianmag.com | 7:22 | ||
| 9 | Boston's Great Molasses Flood (documentary) Internet Archive | Video | archive.org | |||
| 10 | Massachusetts building code history, 1919–1923 Commonwealth of Massachusetts | Government | mass.gov | 8:10 | ||
| 11 | North End fatality records, January 1919 (dataset) City of Boston | Data | data.boston.gov | |||
No sources match
to see all 11 sources.