Henry Petroski
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Henry Petroski (February 6 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University he is also a prolific author.
Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common everyday objects such as pencils paper clips and silverware. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism.
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