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Henry Petroski
AuthorBooks · Second hand1942-2023
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 wrote over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) 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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1942
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2023
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Henry Petroski was a prominent American civil engineer who dedicated his career to analyzing design and technological failure.
Born in Brooklyn in 1942, he combined his work as a university professor with a prolific career as an engineering historian.
His most recognized work, Success through failure, explores the paradox of how errors drive design innovation.
Throughout his life, he published 48 works that break down the history and evolution of technological innovations.
Passing away in 2023, he left a fundamental legacy for understanding how system failures are essential to human progress.