What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) - Hardcover

Vincenti, Professor Walter G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801839742 ISBN 13: 9780801839740

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990

Synopsis

"The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer."--Technology Review.

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.

Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor.

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From the Back Cover:

Examining previously unstudied historical cases, Vincenti shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and, in the book's concluding chapters, presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.

Review:

"'Must' reading for all thoughtful engineers and historians of technology, and even for those physical scientists who wonder why engineers frequently act and think differently than do basic scientists." -- American Scientist

"The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer." -- Technology Review

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0801839742
• ISBN 13: 9780801839740
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336