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Henry Petroski:  opere

  • 1942  Nasce il 6 febbraio.
  • 1985  To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, St. Martin's Press, New York
  • 1986  Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure without Equations
  • 1990  The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, [rif.]
  • 1992  The Evolution of Useful Things, Alfred A. Knopf, New York
  • 1995  Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America
  • 1996  Invention by design. How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusettes, [rif.]
  • 1997  Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
  • 1999  The Book on the Bookshelf, Vintage, [rif.] [rif.1] [rif.2] [rif.3]
  • 2000  Design Paradigms. Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000
  • 2002  Paperboy: Confessions of a Future engineer
  • 2003  Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design
  • 2004  Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
  • 2006  Success Through Failure: The Paradox of Design
  • 2007  The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
  • 2010  The Essential Engineer: Why Science Alone Will Not Solve Our Global Problems, Vintage, New York, [rif.]
  • 2011  The Engineer's Alphabet: Gleanings from the Softer Side of a Profession