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When technology fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century

Title
When technology fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century / edited by Neil Schlager ; foreword by Henry Petroski.
Publication
Detroit : Gale Research, ©1994.

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Additional Authors
Schlager, Neil, 1966-
Description
xxxvi, 659 pages : illustrations; 26 cm
Summary
Discusses aircraft, airships, automobiles, bridges, buildings and other structures, chemical and environmental disasters, dams, medical disasters, nuclear plants, ships, spacecraft, and submarine disasters.
Alternative Title
Significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century
Subject
  • Challenger (Spacecraft) > Accidents
  • Challenger (Spacecraft)
  • Geschichte 1900-1994
  • System failures (Engineering) > Case studies
  • Disasters > Case studies
  • Environmental disasters > Case studies
  • Environmental disasters
  • Accidents
  • Disasters
  • System failures (Engineering)
  • Technik
  • Versagen
  • Unfall
  • Rampen
  • Casestudies
  • Techniek
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Aircraft -- Airships -- Automobiles -- Bridges -- Buildings and other structures -- Chemical and environmental disasters -- Dams -- Medical disasters -- Nuclear plants -- Ships -- Spacecraft -- Submarines.
ISBN
  • 0810389088
  • 9780810389083
LCCN
93041874
OCLC
  • ocm29315606
  • 29315606
  • SCSB-2006443
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library