To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design (Record no. 68563)
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| fixed length control field | 01184 a2200157 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780679734161 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 745.2 |
| Item number | PET |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Petroski, Henry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Vintage books |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | New York |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 1992 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | ix,251p. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Contents:<br/>1.Being Human 1<br/>2. Falling Down is Part of Growing up 11<br/>3. Lessons From Play; Lessons From Life Appendix: "The Deacon's Masterpiece," / Oliver Wendell Holmes 35<br/>4. Engineering as Hypothesis 40<br/>5. Success is Foreseeing Failure 53<br/>6. Design is Getting From Here to There 64<br/>7. Design as Revision 75<br/>8. Accidents Waiting to Happen 85<br/>9. Safety in Numbers 98<br/>10. When Cracks Become Breakthroughs 107<br/>11. Of Bus Frames and Knife Blades 122<br/>12. Interlude: The Success Story of the Crystal Palace 136<br/>13. The Ups and Downs of Bridges 158<br/>14. Forensic Engineering and Engineering Fiction 172<br/>15. From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How it Used to be Done 189<br/>16. Connoisseurs of Chaos 204<br/>17. The Limits of Design 216<br/>Afterword 229<br/>Bibliography 233<br/>Index 245<br/> |
| 890 ## - Country | |
| Country | USA |
| 891 ## - Topic | |
| Topic | FT |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Faculty of Technology | CEPT Library | CEPT Library | 06/07/2021 | Word Bookshop | 1044.00 | 4 | 1 | 745.2 PET | 022856 | 09/02/2023 | 12/01/2023 | 1305.15 | 06/07/2021 | Book |