To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Designby Henry Petroski
โ Scribed by Review by: Alex Roland
- Book ID
- 123714448
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 121 KB
- Volume
- 77
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-1753
- DOI
- 10.2307/231661
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