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Can I read To Engineer Is Human : the Role of Failure in Successful Design on EtoBox?
To Engineer Is Human : the Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is To Engineer Is Human : the Role of Failure in Successful Design about?
The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. Petroski covers many of the best known examples of well-intentioned but ultimately failed design in action -- the galloping Tacoma Narrows Bridge (which you've probably seen tossing cars willy-nilly in the famous black-and-white footage), the collapse of the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel walkways -- and many lesser known but equally informative examples. The line of reasoning Petroski develops in this book were later formalized into his quasi-Darwinian model of technological evolution in The Evolution of Useful Things , but this book is arguably the more illuminating -- and defintely the more enjoyable -- of these two titles. Highly recommended.
Who reads To Engineer Is Human : the Role of Failure in Successful Design?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Henry Petroski
- Publisher
- Vintage Books; Vintage
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679734161
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Engineering, Fiction, Crafts & Hobbies
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (1,081 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
