To Engineer Is Human
The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
4 August 1992
Summary
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 innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering?
These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679734161 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0679734163 |
| Author: | Henry Petroski |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 4 August 1992 |
| Weight: | 221g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 131mm x 15mm |
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“Reading Petroski’s fine book is not only a delight, it is a necessity.”– Houston Chronicle
“Reading Petroski’s fine book is not only a delight, it is a necessity.” –Houston Chronicle
“Serious, amusing, probing, sometimes frightening, and always literate.” –Los Angeles Times
About The Author
Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of more than a dozen previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.
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