The Great Molasses Flood of 1919: How It Changed Liquid Storage Standards
On one fateful day in January 1919, in Boston’s North End, a molasses-filled giant tank, measuring 50 feet in height and 90 feet in diameter, ruptured and caused a tsunami of 2.3 million gallons of thick syrup. Despite the idiom “slow as molasses,” a 25-foot-high and 165-foot-wide wave of molasses crashed through the neighborhood at […]
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