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Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Taschenbuch von Henry Petroski
Sprache: Englisch

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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. 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 and analyzes the numerical layouts of telephones and handheld calculators. Small Things Considered is Petroski at his most trenchant and provocative, casting his eye not only on everyday artifacts but on their users as well.
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. 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 and analyzes the numerical layouts of telephones and handheld calculators. Small Things Considered is Petroski at his most trenchant and provocative, casting his eye not only on everyday artifacts but on their users as well.
Über den Autor
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of ten previous books.
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Fertigungstechnik
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781400032938
ISBN-10: 1400032938
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Petroski, Henry
Auflage: Vintage Books edition
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 132 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Petroski
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2004
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 102486957
Über den Autor
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He is the author of ten previous books.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Fachbereich: Fertigungstechnik
Genre: Technik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781400032938
ISBN-10: 1400032938
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Petroski, Henry
Auflage: Vintage Books edition
Hersteller: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Maße: 203 x 132 x 15 mm
Von/Mit: Henry Petroski
Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2004
Gewicht: 0,318 kg
Artikel-ID: 102486957
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