When technology fails : significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the twentieth century.
Material type: TextPublication details: Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1994Description: xxxvi, 659 p. : illISBN:- 0810389088
- Aircraft accidents
- Automobiles -- Safety measures -- Case studies
- Bridge failures -- Case studies
- Building failures -- Case studies
- Chemicals -- Accidents
- Dam failures -- Case studies
- Disasters -- Case studies
- Marine accidents -- Case studies
- Nuclear power plants -- Accidents -- Case studies
- System failures (Engineering) -- Case studies
- 363.1
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Bibliography: p. 645-647
Includes bibliographic references and index
A discussion and analysis of various disasters, accidents, mechanical and structural failures around the world involving aircraft, spacecraft, submarines, ships, cars, buildings, bridges, nuclear plants, medical accidents, and chemical and environmental hazards
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