Code: 11010441
To Engineer is Human
by Henry Petroski
How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild w ... more
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- Number of pages: 251
Publisher: Random House, 1992
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How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an ov
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14.11 €
- Full title: To Engineer is Human
- Subtitle: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Author: Henry Petroski
- Language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- Number of pages: 251
- EAN: 9780679734161
- ISBN: 0679734163
- ID: 11010441
- Publisher: Random House
- Weight: 258 g
- Dimensions: 147 × 213 × 15 mm
- Date of publishing: 31. March 1992
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