Invention by design
how engineers get from thought to thing
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Author
Publication
1996 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts
Language
English
Word Count
60,500 words, Guess
Page Count
242 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL981624M
- ISBN-139780674463677
- ISBN-100674463676
- OCLC Control Number34640793
- OCLC Control Numberinventionbydesig00petr
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number96019227
- LibraryThing175630
- Goodreads1417001
Classifications
- DDC620/.0042
- LCCTA174 .P4735 1996
Description
This book explores the nature of engineering and technology through case studies of familiar objects, from paper clips and aluminum cans to airplanes and modern high-rise buildings. These real-world artifacts (some of which I have written about before) are approached here from a perspective designed to illuminate different facets of the engineering enterprise -- design, analysis, failure, economics, aesthetics, communications, politics, and quality control, to name but a few. The case studies also touch on a variety of engineering fields, including aeronautical, civil, computer, electrical, environmental, manufacturing, mechanical, and structural engineering. - Preface.
Description
Engineering entails more than knowing the way things work. What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the shape of a paper clip, the tab of a beverage can, the cabin design of a turbojet, or the course of a river? How do the idiosyncrasies of individual engineers, companies, and communities leave their mark on projects from Velcro to fax machines to waterworks? Invention by Design offers an insider's look at these political and cultural dimensions of design and development, production and construction.
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