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Season 24 · Episode 11

To Engineer Is Human

0.01h 0mMarch 16, 1987

Engineer Henry Petroski explains why engineering can never be an exact science and looks at examples of engineering failures.

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Episode 1The Twenty-Five Hour Clock
Episode 2The Search for the Disappeared
Episode 3The Blind Watchmaker
Episode 4Riding the Stack
Episode 5Bruno Bettelheim: The Man Who Cared for Children
Episode 6Bruno Bettelheim: A Sense of Surviving
Episode 7Energy from Outer Space
Episode 8The Return of the Osprey
Episode 9Can AIDS Be Stopped?
Episode 10Police Stress: The John Wayne Syndrome
Episode 11To Engineer Is Human
Episode 12The Magma Chamber
Episode 13Broken Images
Episode 14Trial Babies
Episode 15After Chernobyl - Closer to Home
Episode 16Making Sex Pay
Episode 17The Anthropic Principle
Episode 19Aircrash: The Burning Issue
Episode 20The Riddle of the Joints
Episode 21To Catch a Falling Star
Episode 22In the Light of New Information
Episode 23Janice's Choice