What Engineers Know and How They Know It

Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History

1990 • 336 pages

To 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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Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology is a 7-book series first released in 1987 with contributions by Susan J. Douglas, Walter G. Vincenti, and Rachel P. Maines.