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Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. This book shows us that making something better - by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure - is what invention and design are all about. It explores the nature of invention.
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Success through Failure, Henry Petroski
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- Title
- Success through Failure
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Henry Petroski
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0691136424
- ISBN13
- 9780691136424
- Category
- Art / Culture, Hobby and Home
- Description
- Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. This book shows us that making something better - by carefully anticipating and thus averting failure - is what invention and design are all about. It explores the nature of invention.