Success Through Failure
Success Through Failure
First published 2005 · 256 pages · about 4 hours to read
About this book
Examines many of the failed designs and inventions that led to greater improvements siting as examples the 1940 collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and the space shuttle disasters.
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