Discovery, innovation, and risk : case studies in science and technology /
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| Author / Creator: | Copp, Newton |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993. |
| Description: | xii, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New liberal arts series |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1469312 |
| Summary: | How do scientific principles work in the real world? Discovery, Innovation and Risk presents brief descriptions of selected scientific principles in the context of interesting technological examples to illustrate the complex interplay among science, engineering and society. An understanding of scientific principles is developed through the technology rather than in isolation from it. Drawn from significant contributions to modern culture that arose during the Second Industrial Revolution, examples depict events in each of the major divisions of engineering, touch on key principles in physics, chemistry and biology, and introduce the important concept of risk. |
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| Item Description: | "Published as part of an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program"--Series t.p. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 425 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-415) and index. |
| ISBN: | 026203199X 0262531119 (pbk.) |
