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To engineer is human / written and narrated by Henry Petroski.

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Format:
Video
Contributor:
Petroski, Henry., Screenwriter, Narrator.
Alexander Street Press.
Series:
Filmakers library online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Engineering design.
System failures (Engineering).
Genre:
Documentary films.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (49 minutes).
Place of Publication:
London : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1987.
Language Note:
This edition in English.
System Details:
digital
data file
Summary:
This documentary examines engineering and explains how failures of imagination rather than miscalculations can often lead to disaster and how engineers can often learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes.
Notes:
Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 24, 2013).
OCLC:
867771312
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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