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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Henry Petroski
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780312806804 (0312806809)
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages no: 247
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, History, Science, Technology, Business, Art, Design, Architecture, Engineering
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EricCWelch
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Perhaps I rate this too highly. Problem is I love technology and its issues and Petroski is one of my favorite writers on civil engineering. On the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge, May 27, 1987, almost 1,000,000 people showed up to celebrate and to walk across a bridge that was desig...
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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design - Henry Petroski
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