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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
247

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Subjects

Engineering design, System failures (Engineering), Building failures, Technik, Konstruktionsfehler, Architektur, Systems engineering, Engineering, Building, Technological innovations

Places

Hyatts hotel

Times

1950-Early 1980s

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1985, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Being human
Falling down is part of growing up
Lessons from play; Lessons from life; Appendix : "The deacon's masterpiece" / Oliver Wendell Holmes
Engineering as hypothesis
Success is foreseeing failure
Design is getting from here to there
Design as revision
Accidents waiting to happen
Safety in numbers
When cracks become breakthroughs
Of bus frames and knife blades
Interlude : The success story of the Crystal Palace
The ups and downs of bridges
Forensic engineering and engineering fiction
From slide rule to computer : forgetting how it used to be done
Connoisseurs of chaos
The limits of design

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. [229]-240.
Includes index.

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New York, N.Y

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
620/.00425
Library of Congress
TA174 .P474 1985, TA174.P474 1985

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiii, 247 p.
Number of pages
247
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

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OL3021588M
ISBN 10
0312806809
ISBN 13
9780312806804
LCCN
85001767
OCLC/WorldCat
11623617
Library Thing
16713
Goodreads
3729474

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