Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
- ISBN-10
- 0674463684
- ISBN-13
- 9780674463684
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 242
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Author
- Henry Petroski
Description
Presents case studies of inventions by engineers, explaining how they resolve technical difficulties, and how they make their inventions socially acceptable and economically feasible
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