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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Hardcover

Petroski, Henry

 
9780312806804: To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

Synopsis

Examines the process of the development of an engineering design and discusses the causes of the unsuccessful designs of engineering structures

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Review

"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 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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