To engineer is human
Description
This documentary examines engineering and explains how failures of imagination rather than miscalculations can often lead to disaster and how engineers can often learn more from a single failure than from a thousand successes.
Runtime
49 min
Subjects
Genre
Date of Publication
1987
Database
Alexander Street
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