Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 – June 14, 2023) was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and...

according to the American expert on technological innovations, Professor Henry J. Petroski. He refers to an 1883 article about "Gem Paper-Fasteners", praising...

Society of Civil Engineers; Retrieved November 16, 2012. Petroski 2012, p.175-198. Henry Petroski, "To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure" Cambridge,...

in Durham, North Carolina. Her husband was the engineer and author Henry Petroski; they had children Karen and Stephen. She has been awarded National...

2023. Petroski, Henry (1990). The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57422-2. Petroski, Henry (1991)...

Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering but never defined by Henry Petroski. This concept is close to design pattern coined by Christopher Alexander...

Horne (1917–2010), singer Ivan Lee (born 1981), Olympic saber fencer Henry Petroski (1942–2023), whose 2002 book Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer...

Giblin. New York: Crowell, 1987. The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. The History of Manners by Norbert Elias...

associated advertising was highly effective in the 1970s and early 1980s. Henry Petroski of Duke University said of the waterbed: "Not only was it the cool new...

Needlework and Sewing. Yale University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-300-11093-6. Petroski, Henry, "From Pins to Paper Clips", The Evolution of Useful Things, Knopf...

1927 Parrington, Vernon L. Henry Thoreau: Transcendental Economist Archived June 12, 2007, at the Wayback Machine Petroski, Henry. "H. D. Thoreau, Engineer...

tools "Longman Dictionary". Longman/Pearson. Retrieved 13 May 2022. Henry Petroski, The Pencil:A History of Design and Circumstances, Random House, 2011...

who gave us traffic lights". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved July 24, 2024. Henry Petroski, The Road Taken. Bloomsbury, 2016, p. 71. Mr. Trafficlight. Motor News...

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book To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, engineering historian Henry Petroski finds it "a cautionary tale for engineers of every kind." As a result...

table? Viral video with over 20 million views explains". India Today. Henry Petroski. "A Round Pie in a Square Box" Archived 2018-12-10 at the Wayback Machine...

16, 1998. p. 40. "How U.S. car design came to include cup holders". Henry Petroski. Slate. 15 March 2004. "My cup runneth over". James May. The Daily Telegraph...

statistician. Anne Pellowski, 89, Polish-American educator and author. Henry Petroski, 81, American engineer and professor. Jordi Porta i Ribalta, 86, Spanish...

Press. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Henry Petroski (2006). "Levees and Other Raised Ground". American Scientist. 94 (1):...

"Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers", 1933, n. 98. Henry Petroski (1995). Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning...

chief economist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Henry Petroski, civil engineer and writer Arlie Petters, pioneer in the mathematical...

said to have been invented by Gladstone. The Book on the Bookshelf by Henry Petroski (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1999) also discusses the shelving of books...

doi:10.3390/s23042035. ISSN 1424-8220. PMC 9964178. PMID 36850632. Henry Petroski (2006). Levees and Other Raised Ground. Vol. 94. American Scientist...

Design paradigms: case histories of error and judgment in engineering Henry Petroski CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1994 ISBN 978-0-521-46649-3 Technological...

qualities remains a matter of speculation according to American engineer Henry Petroski. Ramelli himself described the bookwheel as a "beautiful and ingenious...

59 (2): 118–124. Bibcode:1991AmJPh..59..118B. doi:10.1119/1.16590. Petroski, Henry (2009). "Tacoma Narrows Bridges". American Scientist. 97 (2) (2 ed...

(first chapter: "Tools and materials'"), 2004 (ISBN 978-1-58180-584-0). Henry Petroski, The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, New York: Random...

State University; L. Jay Oliva, 14th President of New York University; Henry Petroski, professor of civil engineering at Duke University. In arts and literature...

When Engineering Fails is a 1998 film written and presented by Henry Petroski. It examines the causes of major disasters, including the explosion of the...

Retrieved 19 September 2012. Patrick, Bethanne Kelly, and John Thompson, Henry Petroski (2009). An Uncommon History of Common Things. National Geographic. p...