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Engineers of Dreams
Henry Petroski · 初版 1995 年
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在他先前的著作中，Henry Petroski 带我们领略了铅笔、回形针、拉链和 Post-it 便签等日常物品背后隐藏的奥秘。如今在 Engineers of Dreams 中，他跨越尺度，凝视那些横跨城市河流与水湾的“干燥通道”，那些跨越乡间峡谷与沟壑的“硬朗通途”，以及那些兼具实用功能与无可回避的美感、始终令人叹为观止（如果我们不将其视作理所当然的话）的庞大建筑：桥梁。美国建桥的伟大时代——自 19 世纪 70 年代
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……Henry Petroski。尤其是这几本：- 《To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design》（1985）[1] - 《Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering》（1994）[2] 以及 - 《Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America》（1995）[3]。2007年明尼阿波利斯大桥倒塌后，他还写了一篇非常中肯的专栏文章：《Learning from bridge failure》。[4] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679734163……
…Henry Petroski. In particular: - To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) [1] - Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering (1994) [2] and - Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and The Spanning of America (1995) [3] He also wrote a salient op-ed after the 2007 bridge failure in Minneapolis: Learning from bridge failure. [4] [1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/0679734163…
……金门大桥。举几个例子：- 1973年版的《吉尼斯世界纪录大全》用的是韦拉札诺海峡大桥 - http://books.google.com/books?ei=93b7U_XoBuT5yQPkqYGIBQ&hl=s... - Henry Petroski 在《Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America》里也是这么写的：http://books.google.com/books?id=1J9qUcgoUvkC&pg=PT460&dq=cu... - 还有1995年12月的《Popular Science》也是 http://books.google.com/books?id=7n5BWbJWMXMC&pg=PA102&dq=%2...……
…Golden Gate. For examples: - Guinness Book of World Records (1973) made it with the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge - http://books.google.com/books?ei=93b7U_XoBuT5yQPkqYGIBQ&hl=s... - So did Henry Petroski in Engineers of Dreams: Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America: http://books.google.com/books?id=1J9qUcgoUvkC&pg=PT460&dq=cu... - and Popular Science in December 1995 http://books.google.com/books?id=7n5BWbJWMXMC&pg=PA102&dq=%2...…