What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History by Walter G. Vincenti

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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.

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
ISBN: 9780801845888. 326 pp.
Illus.
Series: Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology.
Softcover. Very good.