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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
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Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called Americaâ€™s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the LimitsÂ celebrates some of the largest things we have createdâ€“bridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineeringâ€™s past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like Londonâ€™s Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like Chinaâ€™s Three Gorges Dam; our most embarrassing moments, like the wobbly Millennium Bridge in London; and our greatest failures, like the collapse of the twin towers on September 11. Throughout, Petroski provides fascinating and provocative insights into the world of technology with his trademark erudition and enthusiasm for the subject.
Country USA
Brand Vintage
Manufacturer Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2005-09-13
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9781400032945

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