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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage

But I have not lost my interest in engineering. In science a single failed prediction can disprove a theory, no matter how many previous tests it has passed, while in engineering one successful design can validate a concept, no matter how many previous versions have failed. Gordon, 1978, ISBN: 0306812835. Read the book review or blog post from the Bookin' with Sunny reviewers and discussions from the Book Club. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. In fact, direct copying of biological organisms can lead to poor, or even disastrous, engineering designs. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design ~ Henry Petroski ~ Sunny Solomon. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. To study the fundamental physical potential To study these questions means exploring, not the time-bound consequences of human actions, but the timeless implications of known physical law. In addition to The Essential Engineer, published in 2010, Petroski has written a dozen other books. Consider all the failed attempts humans made to fly by building contraptions with flapping wings. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski, 1985, ISBN: 0679734163. One of my favourite authors is Henry Petroski, whose book To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design led me to read anything he publishes.