Invention by Design: How Engineers Get from Thought to Thing
- List Price: $27.50
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2006
Description:
Engineering entails more than knowing the way things work. What do economics and ecology, aesthetics and ethics, have to do with the shape of a paper clip, the tab of a beverage can, the cabin design of a turbojet, or the course of a river? How do the idiosyncrasies of individual engineers, companies, and communities leave their mark on projects from Velcro to fax machines to waterworks? Invention by Design offers an insider's look at these political and cultural dimensions of design and development, production and construction.
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