Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment (edition 2022)

by Grady Hillhouse (Author)

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"This illustrated book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making their design and construction approachable and understandable to non-engineers. Readers will learn to identify characteristics of the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more"--… (more)

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Title:	Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment
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2022-11-01

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Harnessing the power of electricity is one of humanity's greatest achievements.

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A lot of technical challenges are involved with getting so much poop from point A to point B, and the fact that we do it primarily out of sight and mind, I think, is cause for celebration. (pp. 187)

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