To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

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

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best known examples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action -- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seen tossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage), the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- and many lesser known but equally informative examples. The line of reasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized into his quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in The Evolution of Useful Things, but this book is arguably the more illuminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these two titles. Highly recommended.Read More

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  • 0312806809
  • 9780312806804
  • Henry Petroski
  • 1 June 1985
  • St Martins Pr
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 247
  • 1
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