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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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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | TA169.5 .W44 1994 | Off-site |
Details
- 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