Title: Another brilliant book
Product review: Though this book like its stablemate on Strong Materials was written some time ago I think it should be essential background reading for all teachers of science and engineering.The writer has a real gift of making quite difficult subjects interesting, and with humourous though relevant asides. Professor Gordon had wide experience in many fields and this shows... even people with no mathematical knowledge can read with profit... especially interesting is the section on how accidents happen, sometimes when a person with insufficient technical knowledge tries to "strengthen" a structure and ends up by weakening it. See for instance the WWI Fokker D8 monoplane and the heating vessels towards the end of the book.The writer also explores the strengths of natural creatures (see "How to design a Worm")Compulsive reading!
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