Petroski, Henry

Petroski, Henry, Design Paradigms Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering, Cambridge University Press, 1994. 

Petroski, Henry, The Pencil A History of Design and Circumstances, Knopf, 1990. 

Petroski, Henry, The Engineer Is Human The Role of Failure in Succesrful Design, St. Martin s Press, 1985. 

Petroski, Henry, Invention by Design How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing, Harvard University Press, 1996. 

Petroski, Henry. (1992). To Engineer Is Human (Vintage New York). 

Petroski, Henry. To Engineer is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design. New York Vintage Books, 1992. 

Petroski, Henry The Evolution of Useful Things How Everyday Artifaas-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They Are. New York Vintage Books, 1994. 

Petroski, Henry, To Forgive Design Understanding Failure, BeUcnap Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 

Petroski, Henry. Success Through Failure The Paradox of Design. 2006. Reprint. Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press, 2008. Examines failure as a motivator for engineering and defines success as anticipating and obviating failure. Chapters deal with bridges, buildings, and colossal failures. 

Petroski, Henry. Reflections on a Slide Rule, Technology Review, 84 (February/March 1981), pp. 34-35. 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Petroski, Henry. 

Florman, Existential Pleasures, 91-98. In 1982 Henry Petroski took Flor-man s baton with a book whose very title named the stakes. Henry Petroski, To Engineer Is Human The Role of Failure in Successful Design (New York St. 

Henry Petroski, Design Paradigms, 1994, pp. 144-164. Failure is presented as an essential part of design progress. A design climate must develop, in which events then take place. 

An engagingly candid audit of the engineering state of the art, which reaches provocative conclusions on the price of progress. .. [Henry Petroski] provides a lucid account of the uses of engineering adversity that deserves a readership beyond the building and/or mechanical trades. ... 

Henry Petroski has written a delightful book. .. in which he conveys some important perceptions about the practice of engineering.. . . Petroski s book is a worthy addition to those writings that make the practice of engineering understandable to the general public. In a deceptively easy style, Petroski raises some important issues and helps us all get a grip on them. ... 

Henry Petroski is Professor of Civil Engineering at Duke University. His other books are Beyond Engineering, The Pencil, and The Evolution of Useful Things. 

Henry Petroski Durham, North Carolina September 1984... 

Consider the disaster at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, in Kansas City, on My 17, 1981. Two suspended walkways crowded with people collapsed in the lobby of the hotel, killing 114 people and injuring nearly 200. The cir-cnmstances are well described in Henry Petroski s important book. To Engineer Is Human (1982). The extensive investigations that followed... 

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