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Henry Petroski

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Works by Henry Petroski

The Book on the Bookshelf 2,278 copies, 40 reviews
The Evolution of Useful Things 1,319 copies, 17 reviews
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design 1,052 copies, 18 reviews
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance 635 copies, 12 reviews
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design 372 copies, 2 reviews
Invention by Design; How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing 312 copies, 2 reviews
Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering 255 copies, 1 review
Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America 239 copies, 2 reviews
Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design 142 copies, 2 reviews
The Toothpick: Technology and Culture 133 copies, 3 reviews
Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering 127 copies, 4 reviews
Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering 123 copies, 1 review
Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer 117 copies, 2 reviews
The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global… 114 copies, 3 reviews

The Road Taken: The History and Future of America's Infrastructure 94 copies, 1 review

To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure 72 copies

The House with Sixteen Handmade Doors: A Tale of Architectural Choice and… 42 copies, 2 reviews

An Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a… 25 copies, 1 review

Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equations 21 copies

The Merits of Colossal Failure 1 copy

[(Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering )]… 1 copy

Refractions: Engineering and History 1 copy

Refractions: Taking Time 1 copy

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Also by Henry Petroski

Seeing Further: The Story of Science, Discovery, and the Genius of the… (Contributor) 797 copies, 12 reviews
Design Disasters: Great Designers, Fabulous Failure, and Lessons Learned (Contributor) 18 copies

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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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