Remaking the world : adventures in engineering / by Henry Petroski.

By: Petroski, HenryMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997Description: xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0375400419 (pbk)Subject(s): EngineeringDDC classification: 620
Contents:
1: Images of an Engineer 2: Alfred Nobel's Prizes 3: Henry Martyn Robert 4: James Nasmyth 5: On the Backs of Envelopes 6: Good Drawings and Bad Dreams 7: Failed Promises 8: In Context 9: Men and Women of Progress 10: Soil Mechanics 11: Is Technology wired? 12: Harnessing Steam 13: The Great Eastern 14: Driven by Economics 15: The Pamana Canal 16: The ferris wheel 17: Hoover dam 18: The channel tunnel 19: The Petronas towers 20: Acknowledgements and Bibliography 21: List of Illustrations
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Electrical Engineering 		620 PET-R 1997 6891 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) Available 0006891
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-226) and index.

1: Images of an Engineer
2: Alfred Nobel's Prizes
3: Henry Martyn Robert
4: James Nasmyth
5: On the Backs of Envelopes
6: Good Drawings and Bad Dreams
7: Failed Promises
8: In Context
9: Men and Women of Progress
10: Soil Mechanics
11: Is Technology wired?
12: Harnessing Steam
13: The Great Eastern
14: Driven by Economics
15: The Pamana Canal
16: The ferris wheel
17: Hoover dam
18: The channel tunnel
19: The Petronas towers
20: Acknowledgements and Bibliography
21: List of Illustrations

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