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Photos. All rights reserved. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The moral Petroski draws—success breeds hubris and catastrophe, failure nurtures humility and insight—is worth pondering, but his conceit mainly furnishes a peg for his trademark historical sketches of the world of objects, full of evocativ

• Title : Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
• Author : Henry Petroski
• Rating : 4.83 (478 Vote)
• Publish : 2015-6-23
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 256 Pages
• Asin : 0691136424
• Language : English

Photos. All rights reserved. (Apr.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The moral Petroski draws—success breeds hubris and catastrophe, failure nurtures humility and insight—is worth pondering, but his conceit mainly furnishes a peg for his trademark historical sketches of the world of objects, full of evocative observations of, say, those interludes during the glitch-prone dawn of PowerPoint presentations when "everyone just stood around or sat by and watched in silence as the bashful new technology was coaxed out of its black box." He delivers a lesson in the price of progress and another perceptive look at the relationship between man and his stuff. But the essence of engineering, he contends, is to constru

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Success through Failure--which will fascinate anyone intrigued by design, including engineers, architects, and designers themselves--concludes by speculating on when we can expect the next major bridge failure to occur, and the kind of bridge most likely to be involved.. But what makes a great design? In this compelling and wide-ranging look at the essence of invention, distinguished engineer and author Henry Petroski argues that, time and again, we have built success on the back of failure--not through easy imitation of success.Success through Failure shows us that making something better--by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure--is what invention and design are all about. Design pervades our lives. The historical record, especially as embodied in failures, reveals patterns of human social behavior that have implications for large structures like bridges and vast organizations like NASA. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. Petroski also looks at the prehistoric and ancient roots of many modern designs. Stressing throughout that there is no surer road to eventual failure than modeling designs solely on past successes, he sheds new light on spectacular fai