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

The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Review The moral of this book is that behind every great engineering success is a trail of often ignored (but frequently spectacular) engineering failures. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. ISBN13: 9780679734161; Condition: New; Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! Discover what it is like to be an engineer, with the ups and downs of failures and success. A few years before Henry Petroski penned the title "To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design", I was curious and brave enough to take power tools to my own guitars. Before the author wrote his better known work, The Pencil (1990), his first novel was To Engineer is Human: The role of failure in successful design (1985). To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review. I bought a used copy of To Engineer Is Human : The Role of Failure in Successful Design sometime last year & it finally migrated to the top of Mount ToBeRead. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. A good book on this (parallel) kind of process: To Engineer is Human, the role of Failure in Successful Design; Petroski, Henry. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. 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". There is an interesting book titled To Engineer Is Human, subtitled The Role of Failure in Successful Design, by Henry Petroski.