To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design

Henry Petroski

272 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction design science informative slow-paced

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How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How ...

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