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Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, toothpicks, and silverware. His first book was made into the film When Engineering Fails. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism.

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rdfs:label	Henry Petroski (de) Henry Petroski (es) Henry Petroski (en) ヘンリー・ペトロスキー (ja) Henry Petroski (pt)
rdfs:comment	Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor both of civil engineering and history at Duke University, he is also a prolific author. Petroski has written over a dozen books – beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, toothpicks, and silverware. His first book was made into the film When Engineering Fails. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism. (en) ヘンリー・ペトロスキー（Henry Petroski, 1942年2月6日 - ）は、アメリカ合衆国の工学者、デューク大学教授。専門は土木工学、失敗学。鉛筆やクリップなどのインダストリアルデザインの研究で知られる。雑誌『アメリカン・サイエンティスト』 (en) やアメリカ工学教育協会会誌 (en) の常連寄稿者。 (ja) Henry Petroski (Brooklyn, 6 de fevereiro de 1942) é um engenheiro estadunidense especializado em análise de falha. É professor de engenharia civil e história na Universidade Duke. (pt) Henry Petroski (* 6. Februar 1942 in Brooklyn) ist ein US-amerikanischer Bauingenieur und Technikhistoriker. Petroski studierte am mit dem Bachelor-Abschluss 1963 und erhielt 1964 den Master-Abschluss an der University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, an der er 1968 in Mechanik promovierte. Danach war er bis 1974 Assistant Professor an der University of Texas at Austin und ab 1975 am Argonne National Laboratory, wo er Versagen von Materialien und Strukturen untersuchte, bevor er 1980 Associate Professor und 1987 Professor an der Duke University wurde. Er ist dort Aleksandar S. Vesic für Bauingenieurwesen und auch Professor für Geschichte. 1991 bis 2000 stand er der Fakultät für Bauingenieurwesen vor. (de) Henry Petroski (nacido en 1942) es un ingeniero civil estadounidense profesor en la Universidad de Duke en Durham (Carolina del Norte), donde se especializa en análisis de fallos. Es un autor prolífico, ha escrito una docena de libros, destacando entre ellos To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (1985) y otros libros detallando la historia del diseño de una multitud de objetos comunes de uso corriente, como las , los lápices, y los clips. Efectúa conferencias frecuentemente, y contribuye semanalmente a la revista American Scientist. (es)
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