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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To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
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Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
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