What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History

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.

• Author
• Walter G. Vincenti

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 336

• Publisher
• Johns Hopkins University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780801845888

• Genres
• engineering, science, design, history, technology, research

• Release date
• 1993