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Designing the world we live in

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Engineering designers, who decide the physical shape and technical features of the built world, tend to forget that their predecessors have been making design decisions for hundreds of years. This paper gives several historical examples of design experience which can supply useful insights today, because the essential nature of engineering has not changed.

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  1. Department of History, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA

    Eugene S. Ferguson

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Adapted from: Eugene S. Ferguson,Engineering and the Mind's Eye. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992

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Ferguson, E.S. Designing the world we live in. Research in Engineering Design 4, 3–11 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02032388

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