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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book.
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Engineering for the Layman
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 2018-03-27
- Language: English
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To Forgive Design
- Understanding Failure
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections. Known for his masterly explanations of engineering successes and failures, Petroski here takes his analysis a step further, to consider the larger context in which accidents occur. In To Forgive Design he surveys some of the most infamous failures of our time.
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To Forgive Design
- Understanding Failure
- Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 2014-05-12
- Language: English
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The Essential Engineer
- Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
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From the acclaimed author of The Pencil and To Engineer Is Human, The Essential Engineer is an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address our world's most pressing issues, from dealing with climate change and the prevention of natural disasters to the development of efficient automobiles and the search for renewable energy sources.
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The Essential Engineer
- Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 2010-02-23
- Language: English
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
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Most of us take for granted that our books are vertical on our shelves with the spines facing out, but Henry Petroski, inveterately curious engineer, didn’t. As a result, listeners are guided along the astonishing evolution from papyrus scrolls boxed at Alexandria to upright books shelved at the Library of Congress. Petroski takes us into the pre-Gutenberg world, when books were so scarce they were chained to lecterns for security.
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The Book on the Bookshelf
- Narrated by: John Lescault
- Length: 8 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 2023-10-17
- Language: English
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Force
- What It Means to Push and Pull, Slip and Grip, Start and Stop
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Mike Lenz
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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Force explores how humans interact with the material world in the course of their everyday activities. Celebrated author Henry Petroski draws from a variety of disciplines to make the case that force—represented especially by our sense of touch—is a unifying principle that pervades our lives. In the wake of a prolonged global pandemic that increasingly cautioned us about contact with the physical world, Petroski offers a new perspective on the importance of the sensation and power of touch.
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Written by: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
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Physical infrastructure in the United States is crumbling. The American Society of Civil Engineers has, in its latest report, given American roads and bridges a grade of D and C+, respectively, and has described roughly 65,000 bridges in the United States as 'structurally deficient'. This crisis - and one need look no further than the I-35W bridge collapse in Minnesota to see that it is indeed a crisis - shows little sign of abating short of a massive change in attitude amongst politicians and the American public.
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The Road Taken
- The History and Future of America's Infrastructure
- Narrated by: Michael Butler Murray
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 2016-07-14
- Language: English
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