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
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Vintage Books, 1992.
Edition:	1st Vintage Books ed.
Subjects:	Engineering design. System failures (Engineering)
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