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Biografien von Ingenieuren

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The Radioactive Boyscout: The True Story of a Boy Who Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Shed

Autor: Ken Silverstein

Taschenbuch, 21.06.2004

Alien Thinking: How to Bring Your Breakthrough Ideas to Life

Autoren: Cyril Bouquet, Jean-Louis Barsoux, Michael Wade

Taschenbuch, 18.03.2021

Mensch, Maschine, Mythos: Phantastische Erzählungen

Autor: Oliver Steffens

Taschenbuch, 31.12.2023

The Map That Changed the World: A Tale of Rocks, Ruin and Redemption

Autor: Simon Winchester

Taschenbuch, 04.07.2002

Sir William Stanier: A New Biography (Oakwood Library of Railway History)

Autor: John E. Chackesfield

Taschenbuch, 21.06.2001

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Taschenbuch

The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley

Leslie Berlin

Taschenbuch

Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell

Brian Clegg

Gebundene Ausgabe

Mein Traum ist länger als die Nacht: Wie Bertha Benz ihren Mann zu Weltruhm fuhr

Angela Elis

Taschenbuch

Grenzgänger - Österreichische Pioniere zwischen Triumph und Tragik

Alwin Schönberger, Brigitte Ederer (Vorwort)

Gebundene Ausgabe

Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering

Henry Petroski

Taschenbuch

Engineers, Henry Petroski observes, are sometimes their own worst enemies, at least so far as communicating their work to the general public is concerned. Some engineers, of course, have been exceptions. One of the unlikely heroes of Petroski's < I> Remaking the World, an entertaining foray into some of engineering's finest (and, on occasion, less exalted) moments, is Karl August Rudolf Steinmetz, who combined a great talent for design and engineering with a keenly practiced flair for self-promotion. Another is Washington Gale Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel, who concocted several dangerous eyesores before arriving at the design familiar to amusement-park patrons.

Successful at explaining themselves or not, engineers are largely responsible for the world as we know it, and Petroski examines their work to discuss how good design and technology combine to produce the desired results. That combination involves much trial and error, and, as Petroski writes, "artifacts from paper clips to steamships evolve by removing some real or perceived failure of their ancestors to achieve unqualified success. " Drawing on examples from past and present, Petroski offers an up-close view of how engineers do their work, and his history is full of surprises and pleasures. < I>-Gregory Mc Namee