To engineer is human : The role of failure in successful design / Henry Petroski.

By: Petroski HenryMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: New York. Vintage books; 1992. Edition: 1992Description: 251 p . ; softbound 13x21cmISBN: 978-0-679-73416-1DDC classification: 620.0042

Contents:

1. Being human 2. Falling down is part of growing up 3. Lessons from play;lessons from life appendix: "The deacon's masterpiece'" by Oliver Wendell Holmes 4. Engineering as hypothesis 5. Success is foreseeing failure 6. Design is getting from here to there 7. Design as revision 8. Accidents waiting to happen 9. Safety in numbers 10. When cracks become breakthroughs 11. Of bus frames and knife blades 12. Interlude: The success story of the crystal palace 13. The ups and downs of bridges 14. Forensic engineering and engineering fiction 15. From slide rule to computer: Forgetting how it used to be done 16. Connoisseurs of chaos 17. The limits of design

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Tetso College Library Science and Technology	Non-fiction	620.0042 PET (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		8649

1. Being human
2. Falling down is part of growing up
3. Lessons from play;lessons from life appendix: "The deacon's masterpiece'" by Oliver Wendell Holmes
4. Engineering as hypothesis
5. Success is foreseeing failure
6. Design is getting from here to there
7. Design as revision
8. Accidents waiting to happen
9. Safety in numbers
10. When cracks become breakthroughs
11. Of bus frames and knife blades
12. Interlude: The success story of the crystal palace
13. The ups and downs of bridges
14. Forensic engineering and engineering fiction
15. From slide rule to computer: Forgetting how it used to be done
16. Connoisseurs of chaos
17. The limits of design

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