Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering
Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth. "Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle "Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering."
Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the
personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world.
--San Diego Union-Tribune
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-10-2009
- excellent collection of essays
I've been a fan of Henry Petroski for a long time, and this book is no exception. Remaking the World is a collection of essays, most of which originally appeared in American Scientist, the bimonthly magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-07-2008
- Remaking the world and ourselves
Perhaps because they have become so good that they are taken for granted, engineers don't get the respect they used to and still deserve. It was different in the 19th century, when it was an open question whether the latest railroad,...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jan-04-2007
- logistic and supportability issues
In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Henry Petroski writes about many man-made wonders of the world. Most intersting to me was the discussion on the logistic and supportability issues surrounding the design and development...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-27-2006
- A Literary Disaster
Henry petroski's Remaking the World is one of the most poorly-written books I have come across in years. The author purports to regale the reader with "adventures in engineering," yet the few actual case histories of engineering...
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Selected Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jun-10-2009
- excellent collection of essays
I've been a fan of Henry Petroski for a long time, and this book is no exception. Remaking the World is a collection of essays, most of which originally appeared in American Scientist, the bimonthly magazine of Sigma Xi, The Scientific...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-24-1998
- Not just for engineers
... but I'm getting a copy for my Dad the engineer. I enjoyed this despite my very soft background in the hard sciences: an English degree. Petroski sometimes leads you down a road with an abrupt ending, but most times it's a pleasant...
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- 1/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-27-2006
- A Literary Disaster
Henry petroski's Remaking the World is one of the most poorly-written books I have come across in years. The author purports to regale the reader with "adventures in engineering," yet the few actual case histories of engineering...
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