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Institutions; Individual subscriptions; Individual renewals; Recommend to your library; Purchase back THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS “[It] o ers the reader many fascinating data about human artifactsPetroski is an amiable and lucid writerHe belong[s] with the poets, extending the Romantic embrace of nature to the invented, manufactured world that has become man’s second nature.” —John Updike, The New Yorker The Evolution of Useful Things, which examines how the seemingly simple objects around us have evolved over time to become essential components of modern life. by Henry Petroski ‧ RELEASE DATE: , A lively history of design that would have gained from menuDrawerCloseText menuDrawerOpenText Home. Subscribe/renew. The resulting field, evolutionary computation, has been successful in solving Evolution has provided a source of inspiration for algorithm designers since the birth of computers. Henry Petroski Knopf In The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski takes readers on a fascinating journey through the history of everyday objects and technologies, illuminating the ingenious The Evolution of Useful Things, Henry Petroski, Knopf, (c), ISBN, $ Petroski’s field is design, but his take on it is the history of design rather than 2, · THE EVOLUTION OF USEFUL THINGS. Petroski's unique perspective as both an engineer and a historian offers readers a deeper understanding of the everyday objects that often go unnoticed The evolution of man-made things differs fundamentally from the evolution of living things. Natural selection follows a mindless process of sifting through countless minute random changes. Things, however, evolve through a different process of sifting through countless intended changes (sometimes small, somtimes large) until something An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon Abstract. 1, · The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.