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  What Engineers Know and How They Know it: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (Paperback) By (author) Walter G. Vincenti

  

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  Short Description for What Engineers Know and How They Know itTo solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.
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  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Published: 01 February 1993
  • Format: Paperback 336 pages
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  • Categories: History Of Science | Engineering: General | History Of Engineering & Technology | Aerodynamics | Aerospace & Aviation Technology | Aircraft
  • ISBN 13: 9780801845888 ISBN 10: 0801845882
  • Sales rank: 229,101

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• "The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer." -- "Technology Review." "Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology."Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor.