To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Henry Petroski
Vintage (1992)
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Technology
Engineering Design, System Failures (Engineering), Technology & Engineering / Civil / General, Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General)
Paperback 9780679734161
English
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s--the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovating Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversize waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Petroski examines in this book, a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.--From publisher description.
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LoC Classification TA174 .P474 1992
LoC Control Number 91050703
Dewey 620.0042
Cover Price $13.95
No. of Pages 272
Height x Width 7.9 x 5.2  inch
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