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Explores engineering and design failures, considering the wider context in which accidents occur.

An eminent engineer and historian tackles one of the most elemental aspects of life: how we experience and utilize physical force

This book explores how humans experience physical force and its effects on everyday activities, not to mention its significance in shaping societies, cultures, and individual lives. Henry Petroski delves into the constant physical interaction between people and things that allows them to stay put or causes them to move.

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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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Con questa sua breve storia dell'errore ingegneristico, Petroski offre una panoramica di spettacolari e memorabili casi fallimentari della storia della progettazione (quelli da manuale della Grecia e della Roma antiche, ma anche ponti crollati e grattacieli collassati dei secoli XIX e XX) dai quali trarre insegnamenti trasversali a tutte le epoche e le discipline. La corsa a una tecnologia sempre più moderna, infatti, finisce per far considera...

Renowned historian and engineer Henry Petroski explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly sixty-five thousand bridges in the United States as "structurally deficient." This crisis--and one need...

A renowned historian and engineer explores the past, present, and future of America's crumbling infrastructure.Acclaimed engineer and historian Henry Petroski explores our core infrastructure from both historical and contemporary perspectives, explaining how essential their maintenance is to America's economic health. Petroski reveals the genesis of the many parts of America's highway system--our interstate numbering system, the centerline tha...

Written by America's most famous engineering storyteller and educator, this abecedarian is one engineer's selection of thoughts, quotations, anecdotes, facts, trivia, and arcana relating to the practice, history, culture, and traditions of his profession. The entries reflect decades of reading. writing, talking, and thinking about engineers and engineering.

Case histories of engineering success and failure are presented to enrich understanding of the design process.

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur"--P. [4] of cover.

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Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America's poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created-bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering's past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London's Tower Bridge, our most ambitious projects, like...