How engineers create the world: Bill Hammack's public radio commentaries AUTH-244187 from cars to homes and

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How engineers create the world: Bill Hammack's public radio commentaries AUTH-244187 from cars to homes andIn over 200 delightful short essays Bill captures the creativity and impact of engineers. He talks of their spectacular achievements jets, satellites, skyscrapers, and fiber optics but draws his deepest insights from the everyday, the quotidian. He finds beauty, elegance and meaning in Ferris wheels, Tupperware, Slinkys, mood rings, waterless urinals and Velcro. Delivered originally on public radio between 1999 and 2006, each essay is a small slice of