To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design /

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 Crys...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Petroski, Henry (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Edition:	1st Vintage books ed.
Subjects:	Engineering design. System failures (Engineering) Conception technique. Pannes. Engineering design Architektur Konstruktionsfehler Technik Architektur. Konstruktionsfehler. Technik.
Online Access:	Table of contents