Success through failure
Subtitle: the paradox of design
By: Henry Petroski.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780691122250
Subjects: Engineering design -- Case studies; System failures (Engineering) -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.