Remaking the world : adventures in engineering / by Henry Petroski.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1997Description: xiii, 239 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0375400419 (pbk)Subject(s): EngineeringDDC classification: 620Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Books | Namal Library 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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