Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942 – June 14, 2023) was an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and...

according to the American expert on technological innovations, Professor Henry J. Petroski. He refers to an 1883 article about "Gem Paper-Fasteners", praising...

2023. Petroski, Henry (1990). The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-57422-2. Petroski, Henry (1991)...

Society of Civil Engineers; Retrieved November 16, 2012. Petroski 2012, p.175-198. Henry Petroski, "To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure" Cambridge,...

Needlework and Sewing. Yale University Press. p. 12. ISBN 0-300-11093-6. Petroski, Henry, "From Pins to Paper Clips", The Evolution of Useful Things, Knopf...

associated advertising was highly effective in the 1970s and early 1980s. Henry Petroski of Duke University said of the waterbed: "Not only was it the cool new...

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Giblin. New York: Crowell, 1987. The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. The History of Manners by Norbert Elias...

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book To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure, engineering historian Henry Petroski finds it "a cautionary tale for engineers of every kind." As a result...