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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

By Henry Petroski

Book information

Publisher
Vintage
Year
2005
ISBN
1400032946, 9781400032945
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
3 MB (3538338 bytes)
Edition
First Edition
Pages
304\0
Time added
2013-12-18 20:13:32

Description

Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineering’s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like London’s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like China’s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.

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