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Remaking the world adventures in engineering

Henry Petroski

New York Alfred A. Knopf 1997

Localização: EPBC - Esc. Politécnica-Bib Central    (62 P448r )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Remaking the world adventures in engineering
  • Autor: Henry Petroski
  • Assuntos: Engineering; ENGENHARIA
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index
  • Descrição: Images of an engineer -- Alfred Nobel's prizes -- Henry Martyn Robert -- James Nasmyth -- On the backs of envelopes -- Good drawings and bad dreams -- Failed promises -- In context -- Men and women of progress -- Soil mechanics -- Is technology wired? -- Harnessing steam -- The Great Eastern -- Driven by economics -- The Panama Canal -- The Ferris wheel -- Hoover Dam -- The Channel Tunnel -- The Petronas towers
    This collection of informative and pleasurable essays by Henry Petroski elucidates the role of engineers in shaping our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World Petroski gravitates this time, perhaps, toward the big: the English Channel tunnel, the Panama Canal, Hoover Dam, the QE2, and the Petronas Towers in Malaysia, now the tallest buildings in the world. He profiles Charles Steinmetz, the genius of the General Electric Company; Henry Martyn Robert, a military engineer who created Robert's Rules of Order; and James Nasmyth, the Scotsman whose machine tools helped shape nineteenth-century ocean and rail transportation. Petroski sifts through the fossils of technology for cautionary tales and remarkable twists of fortune, and reminds us that failure is often a necessary step on the path to new discoveries. He explains soil mechanics by way of a game of "rock, scissors, paper," and clarifies fundamental principles of engineering through the spokes of a Ferris wheel
  • Editor: New York Alfred A. Knopf
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1997
  • Formato: xiii, 239 p. ill. 22 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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