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Success through failure : the paradox of design

Title
Success through failure : the paradox of design / Henry Petroski.
Author
Petroski, Henry.
Publication
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2006.

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Description
xii, 235 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
Summary
Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.
Subject
  • Engineering design > Case studies
  • System failures (Engineering) > Case studies
  • Engineering design
  • System failures (Engineering)
  • Entwurf
  • Fehler
  • Planung
  • Technik
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-218) and index.
Contents
From Plato's cave to PowerPoint -- Success and failure in design -- Intangible things -- Things small and large -- Building on success -- Stepping-stones to super-spans -- The historical future.
ISBN
  • 0691122253
  • 9780691122250
  • 9780691136424
  • 0691136424
LCCN
  • 2005034126
  • 9780691122250
  • 99816758670
OCLC
  • ocm62341568
  • 62341568
  • SCSB-9138708
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library