Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

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	RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Refer to Sapnet.
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2005-09-13
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9781400032945

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