Abraham Darby III at Coalbrookdale because Darby had used iron to make it.  
John Wright earned the nickname Pin Wright after deliberately causing one of these events to happen in 1297.  One event of this type in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1983 was partially due to a paved-over drainage system.  Several residents of Victoria, British Columbia who had just watched a mock battle commemorating the queen died in one of these events in 1896 named for Point Ellice.  This type of event notably did not happen in 1795 to an object created by (*) Abraham Darby III at Coalbrookdale because Darby had used iron to make it.  One of these disasters kills Bartley Alexander in the first novel by Willa Cather.  The Galloping Gertie video shows one of these events about to happen because of aeroelastic flutter.  For 10 points, name this type of disaster exemplified by a 1940 accident near Tacoma, Washington.
John Wright earned the nickname Pin Wright after deliberately causing one of these events to happen in 1297.  
bridge failure [or bridge collapse; prompt on streetcar accidents]