Personal Information
Here are some other books by the author:
Non-Fiction
To Engineer Is Human, St. Martin’s Press, 1985
The Pencil, Knopf, 1990
The Evolution of Useful Things, Knopf, 1992
Design Paradigms, Cambridge University Press, 1994
Engineers of Dreams, Knopf, 1995
Invention by Design, Harvard University Press, 1996
Remaking the World, Knopf, 1997
The Book on the Bookshelf, Knopf, 1999
Paperboy, Knopf, 2002
Small Things Considered, Knopf, 2003
Pushing the LimitsKnopf, 2004
Success through Failure, Princeton University Press, 2006
The Toothpick, Knopf, 2007
The Essential Engineer, Knopf, 2010
An Engineer's Alphabet, Cambridge University Press, 2011
To Forgive Design, Belknap Press, 2012
N.C. Locations Associated with Petroski, Henry
- Resided in:
- Durham (City/Town)
- Taught at:
- Duke University