Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering Book

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Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering
Written by author Henry Petroski
Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, September 2005
Here are two dozen tales in the grand adventure of engineering from the Henry Petroski, who has been called America’s poet laureate of technology. Pushing the Limits celebrates some of the largest things we have created–bridges, da

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Art in iron and steel 3
Bridges of America 13
Benjamin Franklin Bridge 21
Floating bridges 31
Confederation Bridge 42
Pont de Normandie 51
Britannia Bridge 60
Tower Bridge 71
Drawing bridges 80
An eye-opening bridge 91
Millennium legacies 100
Broken bridges 113
New and future bridges 120
Dorton Arena 131
Bilbao 141
Santiago Calatrava 150
Fazlur Khan 159
The fall of skyscrapers 169
Vanities of the Bonfire 180
St. Francis Dam 194
Three Gorges Dam 207
Fuel cells 227
Engineers' dreams 239
Engineers' achievements 248

Title: Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

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Doubleday

Item Number: 9781400032945

Publication Date: September 2005

Product Description: Full Name: Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering; Short Name:Pushing the Limits

Universal Product Code (UPC): 9781400032945

WonderClub Stock Keeping Unit (WSKU): 9781400032945

Rating: 3/5 based on 2 Reviews

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Category: Media >> Books >> Arts & Photography

Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

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Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross

Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross

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Artur Davis

reviewed Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering on February 05, 2018

Pushing the Limits: New Adventures in Engineering

Should have been interesting, but ultimately too random a compilation of articles. Would have benefited from rework to create some coherence in book form.

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