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  <name><![CDATA[Henry Petroski]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Henry Petroski is a civil engineering professor at Duke University where he specializes in failure analysis.

Petroski was born in Brooklyn, New York, and in 1963, he received his bachelor's degree from Manhattan College. He graduated with his Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1968. Before beginning his work at Duke in 1980, he worked at the University of Texas at Austin from 1968-74 and for the Argonne National Laboratory from 1975-80.

He has received honorary degrees from Clarkson University, Trinity College, Valparaiso University and Manhattan College. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas, a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering.

In 2004, he was appointed to the United States Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Brooklyn</hometown>  <born_at>01/01/1942</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design]]></title>
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  <published>1985</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Book on the Bookshelf]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Toothpick: Technology and Culture]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Henry Petroski]]></name>
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