Remaking the world : adventures in engineering / by Henry Petroski.
Remaking the world : adventures in engineering / by Henry Petroski.
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New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N620/69
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Language
English
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Physical content
xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Images of an Engineer -- Alfred Nobel's Prizes -- Henry Martyn Robert -- James Nasmyth -- On the Backs of Envelopes -- Good Drawings and Bad Dreams -- Failed Promises -- In Context -- Men and Women of Progress -- Soil Mechanics -- Is Technology Wired? -- Harnessing Steam -- The Great Eastern -- Driv...
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Publisher
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
1997.
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Summary
This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small.
In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created...
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Remaking the world : adventures in engineering / by Henry Petroski.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.
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N620/69
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74VM4r6qQNXg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VM4r6qQNXg
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ISBN
0375400419 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780375400414 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
620
MMS ID
991001453379702626
