Success through failure: the paradox of design
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Main Author: Petroski, Henry (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press c2006
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-218) and index
From Plato's cave to PowerPoint -- Success and failure in design -- Intangible things -- Things small and large -- Building on success -- Stepping-stones to super-spans -- The historical future
Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 235 p.)
ISBN:0691122253
0691136424
140084911X
9780691122250
9780691136424
9781400849116

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