Title When technology fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century / edited by Neil Schlager ; foreword by Henry Petroski.

Imprint

Detroit : Gale Research, c1994.

Location	Call Number	Status
Jacobs Reading Room	TA169.5 .W44 1994	REFERENCE ONLY
Monograph Collection	TA169.5 .W44 1994	AVAILABLE

Description	xxxvi, 659 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 645-647) and index.
Contents	Aircraft -- Airships -- Automobiles -- Bridges -- Buildings and other structures -- Chemical and environmental disasters -- Dams -- Medical disasters -- Nuclear plants -- Ships -- Spacecraft -- Submarines.
Subject(s)	System failures (Engineering) -- Case studies.
	Disasters -- Case studies.
Alternate Author	Schlager, Neil, 1966-