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Success through Failure: The Paradox of Design
by Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0691136424
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jmount
· 2014-02-26 ·
Original thread
Henry Petroski has a 30 failure cycle for bridge technologies (see
http://www.amazon.com/Success-through-Failure-Paradox-Design...
).