Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

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UPC:
9781400032945
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
9/13/2005
Release Date:
9/13/2005
Author:
Henry Petroski
Language:
english
Edition:
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Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called Americas poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limitscelebrates some of the largest things we have createdbridges, dams, buildings--and provides a startling new vision of engineerings past, its present, and its future. Along the way it highlights our greatest successes, like Londons Tower Bridge; our most ambitious projects, like Chinas 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.