"Why buildings fall down" might be a good option https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X
The stories that make up Why Buildings Fall Down are in the end very human ones, tales of the interaction of people and nature, of architects, engineers, builders, materials, and natural forces all coming together in sometimes dramatic (and always instructive) ways. Publisher: WW Norton & Co ISBN: 9780393311525 Number of pages: 352
If you like the subject but aren't interesting in the didactic style and somewhat dry format, Why Buildings Fall Down is fabulous. Totally unrelated though, because fewer of the lessons there are about broad ships. Most of them look at very specific stories of how bridges, dams and stadiums collapsed. Good book.
Read this book:
Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail https://www.amazon.com/dp/039331152X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glc_fabc_tkBbGbESCRV9E
Having not been to Israel, yet, growing up in LA, I had never encountered a domed synagogue before, and really only came across them a couple of years ago: San Francisco has two.
I gather there was a golden age of domed synagogues in the 19th and early 20th centuries, at least in the US but just found this article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_synagogues_in_the_Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Commonwealth
about synagogues with interior domes help up, I think like a suspension bridge, but the "typical roof" above it, in the mid 16th-17th centuries in Poland
Read a book, I think it was this one, https://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X, quite a while ago, about why buildings fall down, that discussed the various ages of dome building in terms of the evolution of what kept them up. (It also discussed many other things as well)
The book "Why Buildings Fall Down" is excellent.
http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X
read Why Buildings Fall Down http://www.amazon.com/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/dp/039331152X
> Nobody would blah
Nobody would do orbital insertion calculations using the wrong units, losing a spacecraft.
Nobody would follow procedures and delay stopping a train when part of a wheel is embedded in an armrest, killing 101 and destroying a bridge.
Nobody would cut corners on repairing nuclear reactor coolant lines, causing them to disintegrate when an earthquake struck in an earthquake-prone region. Disintegrated coolant lines led to a LOCA, and some Fukushima reactors were a lost cause even before the tsunami hit.
Nobody would light a cigarette in a car while huffing propane, yet I knew someone who did.
What else would nobody do? Because I can come up with a huge number of additional examples. The more you know, the harder it is to be ignorant. I think you are not only ignorant, but also speculating - which is not good.
Read why buildings fall down. If you do, it will be a lot harder for you to pigeonhole things as so unlikely that we need not concern ourselves with them, or for you to say that it's fine to take mental shortcuts.