Biography

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He has written on many aspects of engineering and technology, including design, success and failure, error and judgment, the history of engineering and technology, and the use of case studies in education and practice. His books on these subjects, which are intended for professional engineers and general readers alike, include: To Engineer Is Human , which was adapted for a BBC-television documentary; The Pencil ; The Evolution of Useful Things ; Design Paradigms , which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the best general engineering book published in 1994; Engineers of Dreams ; Invention by Design ; Remaking the World ; The Book on the Bookshelf ; Paperboy ; and Small Things Considered .

By this author :

Engineering
	The Minneapolis Bridge *
	Infrastructure *
	Once an Engineer . . . *
	Akashi Kaikyo Bridge *
	Tacoma Narrows Bridges *
	Machu Picchu *
	Tower Cranes *
	Scientists as Inventors *
	William Barclay Parsons *
	What's In a Name Tag? *
	The Cantilever *
	The Simplest Thing *
	A Bridge and Observatory *
	Thomas Telford *
	Twists, Tags and Ties *
	Thomas Telford *
	Why Things Break *
	Lab Notes *
	Long Crossings *
	Waldo-Hancock Bridge *
	On the Road *
	A Great Profession *
	Things Small and Large *
	Bridges of Charleston *
	Levees and Other Raised Ground *
	Shopping By Design *
	Next Slide, Please *
	Technology and the Humanities *
	The Bay Bridge *
	Painful Design *
	Industrial Origami *
	Past and Future Failures *
	Lives of the Engineers *
	Big Dig, Big Bridge *
	Pyramids as Inclined Planes *
	Deployable Structures *
	Fax and Context
	Boat Lifts *
	Hotel Design *
	Fuel Cells *
	Floating Bridges *
	Early Education *
	St. Francis Dam *
	Framing Hypotheses: A Cautionary Tale *
	Dorton Arena: On the occasion of its 50th anniversary and its dedication as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark *
	Benjamin Franklin Bridge *
	Art and Iron and Steel *
	Delivering Papers *
	The Civil Engineer: On the occasion of a sesquicentennial *
	The Fall of Skyscrapers *
	Everyday Design *
	Millennium Legacies *
	China Journal II *
	China Journal I *
	Bath Iron Works *
	Twin Bridges *
	Vanities of the Bonfire *
	Concrete Canoes *
	Human Factors *
	Making Headlines *
	Why 'The Pencil'? *
	Time-Sensitive Material *
	Buildings and Bookstacks *
	Daubert and Kumho *
	Drawing Bridges *
	Work and Play *
	Down Under *
	Fazlur Khan *
	New and Future Bridges *
	From Connections to Collections *
	Bilbao *
	An Independent Inventor *
	Technology and Societies *
	John Scott Russell *