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Book Summary
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
- ISBN-13
- 9780679734161
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Publishing Date
- 1992-03-31
- Total Pages
- 272
To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
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Book Summary
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
Book Specifications
- ISBN-13
- 9780679734161
- Language
- English
- Binding
- Paper Back
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Publishing Date
- 1992-03-31
- Total Pages
- 272