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How engineers create the world: Bill Hammack's public radio commentaries

How engineers create the world: Bill Hammack's public radio commentaries

Paperback

Technology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0983966109
ISBN13: 9780983966104
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 4 2011
Pages: 444
Weight: 1.23
Height: 0.99 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity and impact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements - jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics - but draws his deepest insights from the everyday, the quotidian. He finds beauty, elegance and meaning in Ferris wheels, Tupperware, Slinkys, mood rings, waterless urinals and Velcro. Delivered originally on public radio between 1999 and 2006, each essay is a small slice of the world created by engineers. The essays also illuminate and inform about the important topics of our day by showing how intertwined engineering and technology are with terrorism, security, intellectual property and our cultural legacy.

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