Beyond Engineering: Essays and Other Attempts to Figure Without Equations

by Henry Petroski

Essays discuss libraries, art, computers, engineering students, time, books, reading, baseball cards, the federal budget, Christmas, and the metric system

Genres: Engineering, Technology

256 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

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.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting perspectives and explanations. Some chapters were more relevant and entertaining than others.

[Mark Reynolds · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not nearly as good as the other Petroski books, such as 'to Engineer is Human'. This collection of essays is pretty weak. None of them are very interesting, to begin with, and they suffer further from his writing style. I don't recommend it.