Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering Paperback - 1998
by Henry Petroski
From the effects the "Titanic" disaster had on the engineering community of 1912 to the construction of Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers, "Remaking the World" offers a celebration of the creative spirit of engineering. Photos.
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When I was an engineering student, a friend of a friend nicknamed me "Steinmetz" and refused to call me by any other name.
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"Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times
From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth.
Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the
personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world.
"Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle
"Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering."
--San Diego Union-Tribune
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- Title Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
- Author Henry Petroski
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Vintage Books
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date December 29, 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780375700248 / 0375700242
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8.06 x 5.32 x 0.52 in (20.47 x 13.51 x 1.32 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Engineering
- Dewey Decimal Code 620
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