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Success through Failure

By Henry Petroski

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Success through Failure

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Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Petroski explores the nature of invention and the character of the inventor through an unprecedented range of both everyday and extraordinary examples--illustrated lectures, child-resistant packaging for drugs, national constitutions, medical devices, the world's tallest skyscrapers, long-span bridges, and more. Stressing throughout that there is no surer road to eventual failure than modeling designs solely on past successes, he sheds new light on spectacular failures, from the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940 and the space shuttle disasters of recent decades, to the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2018-05-29
Publication Date:
2018-05-29
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0691180997
ISBN13:
9780691180991
Weight:
272 g
Height:
9 cm
Width:
213 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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