To Engineer Is Human - Henry Petroski

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To Engineer Is Human - Henry Petroski (Size: 236.34 MB)
  00. Preface.mp3 1.94 MB
  01. Being Human.mp3 10.48 MB
  02. Falling Down Is Part of Growing Up.mp3 9.08 MB
  03. Lessons from Play; Lessons from Life.mp3 17.16 MB
  04. Engineering as Hypothesis.mp3 14.05 MB
  05. Success Is Foreseeing Failure.mp3 10.77 MB
  06. Design Is Getting from Here to There.mp3 11.67 MB
  07. Design as Revision.mp3 10.43 MB
  08. Accidents Waiting to Happen.mp3 13.62 MB
  09. Safety in Numbers.mp3 9.16 MB
  10. When Cracks Become Breakthroughs.mp3 16.21 MB
  11. Of Bus Frames and Knife Blades.mp3 13.49 MB
  12. Interlude - The Success Story of The Crystal Palace.mp3 22.91 MB
  13. The Ups and Downs of Bridges.mp3 14.55 MB
  14. Forensic Engineering and Engineering Fiction.mp3 17.26 MB
  15. From Slide Rule to Computer - Forgetting How It Used to Be Done.mp3 15.42 MB
  16. Connoisseurs of Chaos.mp3 11.78 MB
  17. The Limits of Design.mp3 12.16 MB
  18. Afterword.mp3 4.22 MB
  ▲ 19 total files

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Category: Detective, Misc. Non-fiction
Language: English
Keywords: Physics History Nonfiction Science Engineering Psycholo

Written by Henry Petroski
Read by Matthew Boston
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps


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 innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940?

How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book.

More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer Is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life.

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