Reviews for Design Dimensioning and Tolerancing

The average rating for Design Dimensioning and Tolerancing based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-06-09 00:00:00 Lorraine Good Bleah. I'm not a student of design, but still I am familiar with almost every example discussed. And the constraints he harps on are obvious; for example of course a toothbrush isn't one size fits all, but yet it wouldn't be practical to sell them in sizes, either. I did not know that, at least in some rewired houses, "all upper receptacles are controlled by the room's light switch, so that lamps plugged into them can all be turned on with the single flick.... lower receptacles are hot-wired...." Maybe this will help me understand some hotel rooms that I've been in, at least. And I do want to try to use cloves instead of garlic in spaghetti sauce once, because he erred that way when young and his guests liked it. (An acorn-size scoopful seems like too much, though!) So, 1.5 stars rounded up.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-07 00:00:00 Kimberly Hayes I learned about: --The development of bottled water. --The invention of the paper bag. --The development of duct tape. I skimmed: --Everything else. I am not joking: at one point, Petroski gives a long-winded account of ordering dinner from a design perspective. He talks about "designing" your dessert. "To Engineer is Human" was a good book; this is not.