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Henry Petroski

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Henry Petroski
Engineering
#115
World Rank
#243
Historical Rank
#60
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Civil Engineering
#3
World Rank
#7
Historical Rank
#2
USA Rank
Applied Physics
#1424
World Rank
#1455
Historical Rank
#165
USA Rank
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According to Wikipedia, Henry Petroski was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he was also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, toothpicks, and silverware. His first book was made into the film When Engineering Fails. He was a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism.

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