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...
| Main Author: | Petroski, Henry. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
1992.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage Books ed. |
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