To engineer is human /
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Imprint: | London, England : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1987. |
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Description: | 1 online resource (49 min.). |
Language: | English |
Series: | Environmental Studies in Video |
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Format: | E-Resource Video Streaming Video |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13618510 |
Other authors / contributors: | Petroski, Henry. |
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Notes: | Title from resource description page (viewed Dec. 23, 2013). This edition in English. |
Summary: | This documentary examines engineering and explains how failures of imagination rather than miscalculations can often lead to disaster and how engineers can often learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes. |
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