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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. Henry Petroski

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design


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ISBN: 0679734163,9780679734161 | 269 pages | 7 Mb


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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage




No one wants to learn by mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art. He has penned numerous books, including “To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design” and “Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering. Science, and writing — to enrich the lives of everyone. I've been reading a popular text on engineering by Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1982/1992). A Good Book, from Victor Niederhoffer. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. A good book to put engineering in perspective is To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and others by Petroski. The last post about "The Evolution of Useful Things" reminded me about another of Petroski's books that I read some years ago: "To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design". Henry Petroski, in his classic book To Engineer is Human, says that in his field, failure is almost a prerequisite for success, because only by reaching a point of failure can you define the limits of possibility. And this is, therefore, a matter of social/transactional design!

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