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“The Story Of The Crystal Palace Is A Fascinating One That Bears Repeating”

The Crystal Palace was built in under six months. Engineer Henry Petroski, always a provocative thinker and writer, did some of his best work in the 1985 collection known as To Engineer Is Human: The...

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The Ferris Wheel vs. The Eiffel Tower

The first Ferris Wheel, at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. It was 264 ft. high. Guy de Maupassant is said to have lunched at the Eiffel Tower every day so that he could avoid looking at...

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“It Is Future Failure That Is At Issue”

I’ve posted before about Henry Petroski’s first book, To Engineer Is Human, which I love. It’s the one that made crystal for a non-engineer like myself that building bridges and buildings is not only...

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“When It Comes To Providing The Essentials Of A Modern Society, It Has To Be...

It certainly wouldn’t benefit the American Society of Civil Engineers to slap an “A” grade on every bridge in the U.S., but I don’t think many doubt the organization’s dismal grades for our...

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“When It Comes To Infrastructure, I Am Constantly Wishing I Were Elsewhere”

Following up on yesterday’s post about America’s foundering infrastructure, here’s a section from a New Republic piece by Tom Vanderbilt, who, in this segment, directs his ire at NYC’s woeful highways...

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