
The Essential Engineer
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Henry Petroski takes us inside the research, development, and debates surrounding the most critical challenges of our time, exploring the feasibility of biofuels, the progress of battery-operated cars, and the question of nuclear power. He gives us an in-depth investigation of the various options for renewable energy-among them solar, wind, tidal, and ethanol-explaining the benefits and risks of each. Will windmills soon populate our landscape the way they did in previous centuries? Will synthetic trees, said to be more efficient at absorbing harmful carbon dioxide than real trees, soon dot our prairies? Will we construct a "sunshade" in outer space to protect ourselves from dangerous rays? In many cases, the technology already exists. What's needed is not so much invention as engineering.
Just as the great achievements of centuries past-the steamship, the airplane, the moon landing-once seemed beyond reach, the solutions to the twenty-first century's problems await only a similar coordination of science and engineering. Eloquently reasoned and written, The Essential Engineer identifies and illuminates these problems-and, above all, sets out a course for putting ideas into action.
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- Intro
- Other Books by this Author
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - Ubiquitous Risk
- Chapter 2 - Engineering Is Rocket Science
- Chapter 3 - Doctors and Dilberts
- Chapter 4 - Which Comes First?
- Chapter 5 - Einstein the Inventor
- Chapter 6 - Speed Bumps
- Chapter 7 - Research and Development
- Chapter 8 - Development and Research
- Chapter 9 - Alternative Energies
- Chapter 10 - Complex Systems
- Chapter 11 - Two Cultures
- Chapter 12 - Uncertain Science and Engineering
- Chapter 13 - Great Achievements and Grand Challenges
- Chapter 14 - Prizing Engineering
- Notes
- Illustration Credits
- A Note About the Author
- Copyright
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