Engineers, Henry Petroski observes, are sometimes their own
worst enemies, at least so far as communicating their work to the
general public is concerned. Some engineers, of course, have been
exceptions. One of the unlikely heroes of Petroski''s Remaking the
World, an entertaining foray into some of engineering''s finest
and, on occasion, less exalted moments, is Karl August Rudolf
Steinmetz, who combined a great talent for design and engineering
with a keenly practiced flair for self-promo
內容簡介：
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.
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.
關於作者：
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil
Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he
also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he
has received grants from the National Science Foundation and
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the
National Humanities Center.
From the Hardcover edition.
目錄：
Images of an Engineer
Alfred Nobel’s Prizes
Henry Martyn Robert
James Nasmyth
On the Backs of Envelopes
Good Drawings and Bad Dreams
Failed Promises
In Context
Men and Women of Progress
Soil Mechanics
Is Technology Wired?
Harnessing Steam
The Great Eastern
Driven by Economics
The Panama Canal
The Ferris Wheel
Hoover Dam
The Channel Tunnel
The Petronas Towers
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