The Molasses Flood in Boston 1919

The molasses flood in boston 1919 is that right 1919 january of 1919 what day was it great question i don't know but i'm gonna find out yeah. There's this big vat and molasses that's being used by a company called the purity distilling company interestingly didn't know this molasses was used in world war one as a way to make alcohol which was used in the production of bombs. So we're talking 2.3 million gallons of molasses in this thing now this is the interesting thing about the class i was taking so we talked about failure analysis  so when you have a tank like a pressure vessel you have two types of stress primarily you have ax