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To Forgive Design

Paperback • 2014 • 1. edition

To Forgive Design

By Henry Petroski

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About the book

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time, from the 2007 Minneapolis bridge collapse and the topp...Show more

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9780674416826

Publisher

Harvard University Press

Published year

2014

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1

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To Forgive Design

Format

Paperback

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