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An engineer's alphabet : gleanings from the softer side of his profession /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Petroski, Henry (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Colección:Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; AN ENGINEER'S ALPHABET; Other Books by the Author; Title; Copyright; To Stephen and Laura; Preface; A; abbreviations.; acronyms.; "alphabet of the engineer."; ancient engineering.; applied science.; architects vs. engineers.; arm waving.; artist-engineers.; asphalt cookies.; B; back of the envelope.; backups and redundancy.; badges of engineering societies.; bents and bridges.; biographies of engineers.; books by and about engineers.; David Billington.; Eugene Ferguson.; James Kip Finch.; Samuel Florman.; Richard Meehan.; Walter Vincenti.; Richard G. Weingardt.; Engineers' Dreams. 
505 8 |a The Great Bridge. The Soul of a New Machine.; bridge-building contests.; bug.; C; calculators.; Centennial of Engineering.; cheers of engineers.; cities and other places named for engineers.; civil engineering.; codes and standards.; codes of ethics.; computer.; concrete.; concrete canoes.; Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat.; craft tradition.; cut-and-try.; D; definitions of engineering.; Dilbert.; disasters and near-disasters.; Bhopal.; Challenger.; Citicorp Tower.; Columbia.; Deepwater Horizon.; Fukushima.; Hyatt Regency.; Texas A & M Bonfire.; Three Mile Island.; World Trade Center. 
505 8 |a Drafting tables.duty of an engineer.; E; economics and engineering.; education of engineers.; egg-drop competition.; "electronic engineer."; "Elegy to an Engineer's Sweetheart."; engineer.; engineer.; Engineering News-Record.; engineering science.; "engineers."; "Engineer's Creed."; Engineers Week.; "enginerd."; Erector set.; Erie Canal.; ethics.; expert witness.; Daubert.; Kumho.; F; factor of safety.; failure.; "Faith of the Engineer."; famous engineers.; Theodore von Kármán.; Charles Kettering.; John Smeaton.; David B. Steinman.; Charles Steinmetz.; Thomas Telford.; Stephen P. Timoshenko. 
505 8 |a J.A.L. Waddell.father-and-son engineers.; The Lighthouse Stevensons.; fight songs for engineers.; financial engineering.; FIRST.; founder societies.; French tradition in engineering.; G; gentlemen and engineers.; G.I. Bill.; glass half full.; Grand Challenges.; Greatest Britons.; Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century.; "a great profession."; H; hairy-eared engineer.; half-life of technical skills.; hard hat.; heroic engineers.; highway numbering system.; historic engineering landmarks.; history and engineering.; history of technology.; honor societies. 
505 8 |a Hubris in engineering. I; image of engineers.; imagineering.; industrial design.; industry.; infrastructure.; insight in engineering.; intuition in engineering.; inventions without necessity.; invention vs. innovation.; inventors.; Iron Bridge.; iron ring.; J; jokes about engineers.; joylessness of engineering.; K; keys of honor societies.; L; land-grant institutions.; land surveying.; LAND SURVEYING; letters after an engineer's name.; C.E.; C. Eng.; D.E.E.; D. Sc.; E.I.T.; F. Eng.; M.E.; M.I.C.E.; N.A.E.; P.E.; P. Eng.; S.E.; letters and numerals.; liberal education.; libraries. 
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