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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski ebook
Format: djvu
Page: 269
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0679734163, 9780679734161

On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. In the 50's, during the space race era, when a rocket was launched in orbit successfully, the media praised the scientists. Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. The BBC filmed a documentary, based on Petroski book “To Engineer is Human”; Publication “Design Paradigms” was ranked in 1994 by Association of American Publisher, the best book about engineering. Technological factors-those related to the role, use and economics, have been much more decisive than the literary profile in the book and the furniture that fits. He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. Conversely, when the rockets failed, they blamed the engineers – said prof. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. Petroski's works A scientist or an engineer? To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing.