Designing Engineers
$104.72
- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
31 January 1996
Summary
Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects- an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system.The products of engineering design are everywhere, but who or what determines their form and function? Their surfaces are usually cold, seemingly objective, as if they existed outside of history of the technologies that are so much a part of our lives. Written by a practicing engineer, Designing Engineers yields cl…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262522120 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262522128 |
| Author: | Louis L. Bucciarelli |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 1996 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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“Bucciarelli’s vigorous, humane intelligence sheds new light on theinner dynamics of technological choice. This book is truly oneof a kind.” Langdon Winner, author of The Whale and the Reactor
About The Author
Louis L. Bucciarelli
Wiebe E. Bijker is Professor at Maastricht University and the author of Of Bicycles, Bakelites, and Bulbs: Toward a Theory of Sociotechnical Change (MIT Press) and other books. Trevor Pinch is Goldwin Smith Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University and coeditor of The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (anniversary edition, MIT Press).
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