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A Fascination with Failure: Death On The Dancefloor (Classic)
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Petroski's Adaptation to Failure
In 1981, two skywalks at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed, killing 114 people. Dr. Petroski's neighbor asked him, how on earth could that happen? Did engineers really not understand how to build a simple structure like a walkway hanging from a ceiling? That was one of the inspirations for my own book, Adapt. And Petroski was really, really thoughtful on the subject of engineering failure.
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