Content tagged with "engineering"

How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World
Book Review
March 27, 2024
173

This book was okay. It’s not what I expected. It talks about infrastructure, but really from a systems and societal perspective. It talks about the ideas of sharing infrastructure, and how that infrastructure has played out in our society. It also goes deep into the effects on women and minorities,…

The Pentagon: A History
Book
11
Powering the World’s Airliners: Engine Developments from the Propeller to the Jet Age
Deane’s Library
Book Review
July 1, 2024
277

I normally find things to research by reading books. This time I read a book because I wanted to learn more about a thing I was researching. I was writing this entry: Types of Aircraft Engines. I wanted to know more about the differences between turboprops and turbofans. So I found this book, and…

To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 21, 2024
167

This is an interesting book. It’s a collection of essays, really, about engineering, and specifically about engineering failures. I call it a “collection” because there’s no narrative thread to any of it. All the chapters seemed to be relatively disconnected, and I couldn’t really figure out the…