The Resource To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design, Henry Petroski
To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design, Henry Petroski
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- Summary
- 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 innovating Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversize waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Petroski examines in this book, a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- ix, 251 pages
- Note
- Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985
- Contents
-
- Being human
- Falling down is part of growing up
- Lessons from play; lessons from life
- Engineering as hypothesis
- Success is foreseeing failure
- Design is getting from here to there
- Design as revision
- Accidents waiting to happen
- Safety in numbers
- When cracks become breakthroughs
- Of bus frames and knife blades
- Interlude: the success story of the Crystal Palace
- The ups and downs of bridges
- Forensic engineering and engineering fiction
- From slide rule to computer: forgetting how it used to be done
- Connoisseurs of chaos
- The limits of design
- Afterword
- Isbn
- 9780679734161
- Label
- To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design
- Title
- To engineer is human
- Title remainder
- the role of failure in successful design
- Statement of responsibility
- Henry Petroski
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 innovating Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversize waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Petroski examines in this book, a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.--From publisher description
- Additional physical form
- Also issued online.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Petroski, Henry
- Dewey number
- 620/.0042
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- TA174
- LC item number
- .P474 1992
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Engineering design
- System failures (Engineering)
- Engineering design
- System failures (Engineering)
- Architektur
- Konstruktionsfehler
- Technik
- Architektur
- Konstruktionsfehler
- Technik
- Label
- To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design, Henry Petroski
- Note
- Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Being human -- Falling down is part of growing up -- Lessons from play; lessons from life -- Engineering as hypothesis -- Success is foreseeing failure -- Design is getting from here to there -- Design as revision -- Accidents waiting to happen -- Safety in numbers -- When cracks become breakthroughs -- Of bus frames and knife blades -- Interlude: the success story of the Crystal Palace -- The ups and downs of bridges -- Forensic engineering and engineering fiction -- From slide rule to computer: forgetting how it used to be done -- Connoisseurs of chaos -- The limits of design -- Afterword
- Control code
- 25009487
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- ix, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679734161
- Lccn
- 91050703
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)25009487
- Label
- To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design, Henry Petroski
- Note
- Originally published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1985
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-244) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- Being human -- Falling down is part of growing up -- Lessons from play; lessons from life -- Engineering as hypothesis -- Success is foreseeing failure -- Design is getting from here to there -- Design as revision -- Accidents waiting to happen -- Safety in numbers -- When cracks become breakthroughs -- Of bus frames and knife blades -- Interlude: the success story of the Crystal Palace -- The ups and downs of bridges -- Forensic engineering and engineering fiction -- From slide rule to computer: forgetting how it used to be done -- Connoisseurs of chaos -- The limits of design -- Afterword
- Control code
- 25009487
- Dimensions
- 21 cm
- Edition
- 1st Vintage books ed.
- Extent
- ix, 251 pages
- Isbn
- 9780679734161
- Lccn
- 91050703
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)25009487
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