To engineer is human
Subtitle: the role of failure in successful design
By: Henry Petroski.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780312806804
Subjects: Engineering design; System failures (Engineering)
Notes: Bibliography: p. [229]-240.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Being human; title: Falling down is part of growing up; title: Lessons from play; Lessons from life; Appendix : "The deacon's masterpiece" / Oliver Wendell Holmes; title: Engineering as hypothesis; title: Success is foreseeing failure; title: Design is getting from here to there; title: Design as revision; title: Accidents waiting to happen; title: Safety in numbers; title: When cracks become breakthroughs; title: Of bus frames and knife blades; title: Interlude : The success story of the Crystal Palace; title: The ups and downs of bridges; title: Forensic engineering and engineering fiction; title: From slide rule to computer : forgetting how it used to be done; title: Connoisseurs of chaos; title: The limits of design