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　　From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of

engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and

small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke

University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's

1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut

through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311

million cubic yards of earth.

Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders

of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to

the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community

of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the

personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard

Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic

steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General

Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered

twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a

celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose

inspirations have immeasurably improved our world.

Images of an Engineer

Alfred Nobel’s Prizes

Henry Martyn Robert

James Nasmyth

On the Backs of Envelopes

Good Drawings and Bad Dreams

Failed Promises

In Context

Men and Women of Progress

Soil Mechanics

Is Technology Wired?

Harnessing Steam

The Great Eastern

Driven by Economics

The Panama Canal

The Ferris Wheel

Hoover Dam

The Channel Tunnel

The Petronas Towers

　　Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil

Engineering and Professor of History at Duke University, where he

also serves as chairman of the Department of Civil and

Environmental Engineering. The author of seven previous books, he

has received grants from the National Science Foundation and

fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the

National Humanities Center.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Engineers, Henry Petroski observes, are sometimes their own

worst enemies, at least so far as communicating their work to the

general public is concerned. Some engineers, of course, have been

exceptions. One of the unlikely heroes of Petroski's Remaking the

World, an entertaining foray into some of engineering's finest

(and, on occasion, less exalted) moments, is Karl August Rudolf

Steinmetz, who combined a great talent for design and engineering

with a keenly practiced flair for self-promotion. Another is

Washington Gale Ferris, the inventor of the Ferris wheel, who

concocted several dangerous eyesores before arriving at the design

familiar to amusement-park patrons.

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Science/Engineering "Petroski has an inquisitive mind, and he is a fine writer. . . . [He] takes us on a lively tour of engineers, their creations and their necessary turns of mind." --Los Angeles Times From the Ferris wheel to the integrated circuit, feats of engineering have changed our environment in countless ways, big and small. In Remaking the World: Adventures in Engineering, Duke University's Henry Petroski focuses on the big: Malaysia's 1,482-foot Petronas Towers as well as the Panama Canal, a cut through the continental divide that required the excavation of 311 million cubic yards of earth.

Remaking the World tells the stories behind the man-made wonders of the world, from squabbles over the naming of the Hoover Dam to the effects the Titanic disaster had on the engineering community of 1912. Here, too, are the stories of the

personalities behind the wonders, from the jaunty Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of nineteenth-century transatlantic steamships, to Charles Steinmetz, oddball genius of the General Electric Company, whose office of preference was a battered twelve-foot canoe. Spirited and absorbing, Remaking the World is a celebration of the creative instinct and of the men and women whose inspirations have immeasurably improved our world. "Petroski [is] America's poet laureate of technology. . . . Remaking the World is another fine book." --Houston Chronicle "Remaking the World really is an adventure in engineering."

--San Diego Union-Tribune