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To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design Henry Petroski
Publisher: Vintage

Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing. Since the book was published in 1982, the examples employed are somewhat dated. Before the author wrote his better known work, The Pencil (1990), his first novel was To Engineer is Human: The role of failure in successful design (1985). To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design by Henry Petroski. To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design book download Download To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design To engineer is human: the role of failure in successful design. Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design. As Henry Petroski writes in To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, we learn more from our failures than our successes. On a dusty bookshelf at home, I have the book, "To Engineer is Human - The Role of Failure in Successful Design" by Henry Petroski. (ISBN: 0897331532) Although its more than thirty years old I think it is still a landmark book on how and why we design. Invention by design: How engineers get from thought to thing. To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design. To Engineer is Human by Henry Petroski: book review.