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To engineer is human /

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This documentary examines engineering and explains how failures of imagination rather than miscalculations can often lead to disaster and how engineers can often learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Petroski, Henry (Narrator)
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:This edition in English.
Published: London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1987.
Series:Environmental Studies in Video
Subjects:
System failures (Engineering)
Pannes.
Documentary films.
Documentaires.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:This documentary examines engineering and explains how failures of imagination rather than miscalculations can often lead to disaster and how engineers can often learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes.
Item Description:Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2013).
Physical Description:1 online resource (49 min.).
Playing Time:00:49:10