"As simple as familiar objects may seem at first glance, their conception, development, manufacturing and marketing may pose great difficulties"
Invention by Design - How Engineer Get from thought to thing
Henry Petroski
Harvard University Press
1996
256 páginas
8h 32m
ISBN-10: 0674463684
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Henry Petroski
Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 - ) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books - beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism. His most recently published book is The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems.
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New York, Estados Unidos da América