To engineer is human: (Record no. 34350)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780679734161 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | NISER LIBRARY |
| Transcribing agency | NISER LIBRARY |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 62-11 |
| Item number | PET-T |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Petroski, Henry |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | To engineer is human: |
| Remainder of title | the role of failure in successful design |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York: |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Vintage Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1992 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | ix, 251p. |
| Other physical details | Pbk |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE | |
| Bibliography, etc | Contents<br/><br/>1. Being human<br/>2. Falling down is part of growing up<br/>3. Lessons from play; Lessons from life appendix: “The Deacon’s Masterpiece,” by Oliver Wendell Holms<br/>4. Engineering as hypothesis<br/>5. Success is foreseeing failure<br/>6. Design is getting from here to there<br/>7. Design as revision<br/>8. Accidents waiting to happen<br/>9. Safety in numbers<br/>10. When cracks become breakthroughs<br/>11. Of bus frames and knife blades<br/>12. Interlude: the success story of the crystal palace<br/>13. The ups and downs of bridges<br/>14. Forensic engineering and engineering fiction<br/>15. From slide rule to computer: forgetting how it used to be done<br/>16. Connoisseurs of chaos<br/>17. The limits of design<br/>Afterword<br/>Bibliography<br/>Index |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book. More than a series of fascinating case studies, To Engineer is Human is a work that looks at our deepest notions of progress and perfection, tracing the fine connection between the quantifiable realm of science and the chaotic realities of everyday life. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | ENGINEERING DESIGN |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | SYSTEM FAILURES (ENGINEERING) |
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| Universal Decimal Classification | NISER LIBRARY | NISER LIBRARY | 2nd Floor - Popular Science | 20/07/2023 | NISER/LIB/BK/PO/2023-2024/05;06/06/2023;TECHNICAL BUREAU INDIA PVT.LTD;TB831;06/07/2023;$18.00 | 62-11 PET-T | 24694 | 25/07/2023 | 25/07/2023 | Popular Science |
