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COMMENTS: Good Vibrations
Last Thursday, CBS sent Sheila MacVicar to Switzerland to show us how the Europeans use fiber optics to monitor whether their bridges are falling down. Now NBC has George Lewis visit Bridge Doctor Maria Fang, an engineering professor with a fear of heights at UCal-Irvine, to show us What Works. "Using C21st technology to keep an eye on the nation's aging infrastructure," Fang has equipped bridges on the earthquake prone Pacific coast with vibration sensors: "Any unusual patterns can trigger an alarm."
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