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A 8-post collection

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Safe Bad

The last several years of my career have been spent in specialized teams doing specialized things. In a purely technical sense, that's been delightful and I've »

Brian L. Troutwine on engineering, systems thinking 23 February 2019

Pressure Suits and a Suitcase?

The X-15 is a fascinating project in NASA and aeronautic engineering history. Running from 1958 to 1968 this plane couldn't take off: it was dropped from »

Brian L. Troutwine on engineering, aerospace engineering 19 August 2015

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Grigori Medvedev's "The Truth About Chernobyl"

Let me tell you a joke. Days after the Chernobyl plant melted down General Tarakanov, aware of the extreme importance of clearing the reactor roof of »

Brian L. Troutwine on engineering, peculiar books reviewed, nuclear engineering 05 September 2014

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.'s "Thirteen: The Apollo Flight that Failed"

In the first Peculiar Books Reviewed we discussed David A. Mindell's delightful book "Digital Apollo" and, in particular, took from the book this lesson: »

Brian L. Troutwine on engineering, peculiar books reviewed, aerospace engineering 04 August 2014

Peculiar Books Reviewed: Francis Spufford's "Backroom Boys"

What is the soul of software engineering as a discipline? That is, who is it that the software engineer can esteem? What characteristics are laudable and »

Brian L. Troutwine on engineering, peculiar books reviewed, aerospace engineering 01 July 2014
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