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What Engineers Know and How They Know it: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) (Paperback)

by Walter G. Vincenti (Author) "Engineering knowledge, though pursued at great effort and expense in schools of engineering, receives little attention from scholars in other disciplines ..." (more)

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Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press; New edition edition (1 Feb 1993)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0801845882
ISBN-13: 978-0801845888
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 2.3 cm

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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"'Must' reading for all thoughtful engineers and historians of technology, and even for those physical scientists who wonder why engineers frequently act and think differently than do basic scientists." -- American Scientist

"The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer." -- Technology Review

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"The biggest contribution of Vincenti's splendidly crafted book may well be that it offers us a believably human image of the engineer." -- Technology Review.

Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.

Merritt Roe Smith, Series Editor.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Vincenti shows the way technologies mature, 11 Jul 1998

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I am an instructional technologist dealing a lot with the design and development of products in a young technology, computer-based instruction. My technology is in its youth compared to other technologies that have become essential to our social and economic operations. I am interested in knowing the stages my technology will go through and the types of knowledge it must accumulate as it matures, which seems certain, given current interest and ferment.

Vincenti describes how aeronautics technologies grew and went through their stages, and this has given me insight into my own. This is not a book of idealized process for implementing technology. It is s set of historical case studies, some of which Vincenti himself participated in, others of which he researched.

The book is not easy to read, but I have found it very rewarding. It is full of technical terms and heavy technology. At the same time, if you pay the price in effort and study this book carefully, you will not be disappointed. You will see how technologies develop, and knowing this, you will be able to anticipate developments and needs in your own area of growth.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rebuff to reductionists, 5 Dec 1998

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Having read this book some years ago I have since bought c. 20 copies to give to friends and colleagues interested in Engineering, Science, and the philosophy of either. The introduction makes a good attempt to distinguish between engineering and science and has, I believe, at least some of that story - which has yet to be told properly. But the real meat is in the five case studies each of which shows how, through engineering, science has developed empirically. Scientific 'laws' are just our latest working models.

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