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Author: Henry Petroski
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ISBN: B000XUBFZQ

Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design (Vintage)

Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, in fact, works in progress. Download Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design (Vintage) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. For there can never be an end to the quest for the perfect design.

To illustrate his thesis, Petroski tells the story of the paper drinking cup, which owes its popularity to the discovery that water glasses could carry germs. He pays tribute to the little plastic tripod that keeps pizza from sticking to the box Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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