9780674463684
Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
Henry Petroski
ISBN 13: 9780674463684
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Softcover
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A renowned popularizer provides ten case histories that vividly depict the qualitative side of engineering. Petroski demonstrates that great engineers are driven by the desire to improve the human condition, whatever the tools they use.
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"By the end the reader will enthusiastically agree that 'the simplest of things can hold as much mystery and provide as many lessons about the nature of engineering as the most complex'."
Curt Suplee, Washington Post Book World, 12/29/1996
Review:"This is something of a greatest-hits collection from the man who managed to make a book about the pencil a riveting read."
Scientific American, August 1997
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Book Description: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS, United States, 1998. Paperback. Book Condition: New. 235 x 155 mm. Brand New Book. In this book, Petroski delves deeper into the mystery of invention, to explore what everyday artifacts and sophisticated networks can reveal about the way engineers solve problems. Engineering entails more than knowing the way things work. What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the shape of a paper clip, the tab of a beverage can, the cabin design of a turbojet, or the course of a river? How do the idiosyncrasies of individual engineers, companies and communities leave their mark on projects from Velcro to fax machines to waterworks? "Invention by Design" offers an insider's look at these political and cultural dimensions of design and development, production and construction. Henry Petroski's previous books include: "To Engineer Is Human", which was developed into a BBC television documentary; "The Pencil": "The Evolution of Useful Things"; and "Engineers of Dreams". Bookseller Inventory # AAS9780674463684 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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