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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)

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