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Success through Failure : The Paradox of Design /

Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Petroski, Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • From Plato's cave to PowerPoint
  • Success and failure in design
  • Intangible things
  • Things small and large
  • Building on success
  • Stepping-stones to super-spans
  • The historical future.