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082			_a745.2 _bPET
100			_aPetroski, Henry _926811
245			_aTo engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design
260			_bVintage books _aNew York _c1992
300			_aix,251p.
505			_aContents: 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
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