To Engineer is Human: Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski SEALED

Brand New in shrink wrap To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski, the author of The Evolution of Useful Things, with an afterword by the author. "Serious, amusing, probing, sometimes frightening and always literate" - Los Angeles Times. Paperback inside shrink wrap.
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