Invention by design : how engineers get from thought to thing / Henry Petroski.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1999, c1996Description: viii, 242 p. ill. ; 23 cmISBN: 0674463684 (pbk.); 9780674463684 (pbk.)Subject(s): Engineering design -- Social aspects | Engineering design -- Political aspects | Engineering design -- Case studiesDDC classification: 620/.0042 LOC classification: TA174 | .P4735 1999Summary: 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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Reprint. Originally published: 1996.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
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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