What engineers know and how they know it : analytical studies from aeronautical history / Walter G. Vincenti.
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
©1990.
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| Series: | Johns Hopkins studies in the history of technology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Engineering as knowledge
- Design and the growth of knowledge : the Davis wing and the problem of airfoil design, 1908-1945
- Establishment of design requirements : flying-quality specifications for American aircraft, 1918-1943
- A theoretical tool for design : control-volume analysis, 1912-1953
- Data for design : the air-propeller tests of W.F. Durand and E.P. Lesley, 1916-1926
- Design and production : the innovation of flush riveting in American airplanes, 1930-1950
- The anatomy of engineering design knowledge
- A variation-selection model for the growth of engineering knowledge.