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    HENRY PETROSKI Invention From THoucHt J ro THING ‘The products of engineering ae all atound ws. The computer on which these words were pedis an obvious example 8 the ai conditioning sytem that keeps us and our computers) comfrable even though its hot and humid ouside the bulding—which sal a product of engineer ing, When we do go outside physically, we often ride im an automobile ‘on toads and highways with tunnels and bridges, and when we go outside retaphorialy, we we telephones, videotapes, aes and computer net works. All of these ae products of engineering design, manufacturing, and comsinsetion, Idee, the world of ov everday experienc is shape bythe pnctice of engneeing and technology andthe wold shapes those Acti in tur, Bat what engineering what ace it origns, and how to engineers practice 1 And what i technology, wha are te roots, nd how does tele to the est of experince? This book explores such ‘questions ‘The proces by which a hightesh computer gets rom an inventors brainstorm to our desk, fb which an innostve ridge gets ensformed from some enginee’ dear oa spectacular, seldom sight forward. I can entail decades of painstakingly dow reeach and devel opment, flloned by weeks of fensed acti. In ation, each eng neering projet is touched bythe iieyncraces find engineers, companies, communities, and marketplaces. And there ate questons of economics, polis, aches, and ethics. Furthermore, each engineer ing projects highly dependent upon the sala of aw materia of varying qualiy. And though engineering isthe art of rearanging the materials and forces of mature, the immtabe Inv of nature ate ferever onstaning the engineer st to how tore rearangements can of cannot be made. ‘Thisbook tempt o make sens of many of these inteeated aspects of enginceting. Bat ater han beginning wth lage sostues o stems and the atendant mathematics and sence that it aks to fly compre hend them, the book bepne with 2 clse look 2 some familie objets They may appes to be so snple as not to require any sophitcated engineering tall. But ying tha! these object donot require advanced enginerng isnot to sty that these objets da not embody engineering Drincples. A seltaught and gifed inventor who comes up with some clever device and makes 2 millon dolls on the ides tier thought processes not unlike hore used by the graduate of an engineering echea ‘a designing and developing anew device to collec sl samples on Mas nd brirgthem back o Earth, And at imple as fait objets may seem at fis glance, heir conception, development, manufacturing, and ting may ove erat cults, Engineering isa fundamental humsn proces that hasbeen practiced fron the eatiest days of evliaton. Today, its methods have Been peo fesionalized and formalized and is exer caleultonal nate at bon greatly enhanced by the electronic computer. ut that not 9 thatthe ill and diipline required to do good engineeing ae ttl

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