TY  - GEN
AU  - Petroski, Henry
TI  - To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design
SN  - 9780679734161
U1  - 745.2 
PY  - 1992///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage books
N1  - Contents:
1.Being Human  1
2. Falling Down is Part of Growing up  11
3. Lessons From Play; Lessons From Life Appendix: "The Deacon's Masterpiece," / Oliver Wendell Holmes  35
4. Engineering as Hypothesis  40
5. Success is Foreseeing Failure  53
6. Design is Getting From Here to There  64
7. Design as Revision  75
8. Accidents Waiting to Happen  85
9. Safety in Numbers  98
10. When Cracks Become Breakthroughs  107
11. Of Bus Frames and Knife Blades  122
12. Interlude: The Success Story of the Crystal Palace  136
13. The Ups and Downs of Bridges  158
14. Forensic Engineering and Engineering Fiction  172
15. From Slide Rule to Computer: Forgetting How it Used to be Done  189
16. Connoisseurs of Chaos  204
17. The Limits of Design  216
Afterword 229
Bibliography 233
Index   245

ER  -