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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Grasping the engineering method
Chapter 3: How engineers choose what’s best
Chapter 4: How engineers handle limited resources and persistent uncertainty
Chapter 5: The role of science within engineering
Chapter 6: There’s no such thing as the lone inventor
Chapter 7: The complexity within innovation
Description
The Things We Make (2023) dispels the myth around some of the greatest and most ordinary inventions. It retells their making as a creative application of the engineering method, a principle that explains how people in ancient times built some of the marvels that still capture our imagination today.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone fascinated about how things of beauty and utility are made
- Engineering history buffs
- Curious minds trying to apply the engineering method to their own lives