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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Main Author: Petroski, Henry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Edition:1st Vintage books ed.
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