[PDF.77nd] Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

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 | #898914 in Books |  1998-12-29 |  1998-12-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.97 x.54 x5.16l,.53 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Remaking the world and ourselves|By Harry Eagar|Perhaps because they have become so good that they are taken for granted, engineers don't get the respect they used to and still deserve. It was different in the 19th century, when it was an open question whether the latest railroad, bridge or tunnel would work.

Many didn't. The occasional collapse of a highway bridge i|.com |Engineers, Henry Petroski observes, are sometimes their own worst enemies, at least so far as communicating their work to the general public is concerned. Some engineers, of course, have been exceptions. One of the unlikely heroes of Petroski's Remakin

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"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind."   --Los Angeles Times

From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malays...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering   |  Henry Petroski. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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