A guide to the engineers and engineering feats which had the biggest impact on the industrial world.

When planes crash, bridges collapse, and automobile gas tanks explode, we are quick to blame poor design. But Henry Petroski says we must look beyond design for causes and corrections…

The Bard of Engineering–author of the critically acclaimed The Evolution of Useful Things and The Pencil –turns his strikingly observant eye from small everyday objects to large feats of engineering…

He has been called the poet laureate of technology and a writer who is erudite, witty, thoughtful, and accessible. Now Henry Petroski turns to the subject of books and bookshelves…

From the acclaimed author of To Engineer Is Human comes an eye-opening exploration of the ways in which science and engineering must work together to address the world’s most pressing…