ISBN: 9780822345268

""Hitting the Brakes" is an important and enjoyable book. Cars are fascinating, and the opportunity to see how a significant safety system, antilock brakes, became part of them should int… Más…

""Hitting the Brakes" is an important and enjoyable book. Cars are fascinating, and the opportunity to see how a significant safety system, antilock brakes, became part of them should interest anyone curious to learn how the cars we drive came to be as they are. But this book is more than an enjoyable history. It fundamentally rethinks how we understand engineering and the knowledge that engineers create. It will challenge philosophers to better understand knowledge and historians to better understand the development of knowledge. "Hitting the Brakes" is at once a social history of engineering communities, a philosophical thesis about engineering knowledge, and a great story."--Davis Baird, author of "Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments" Media > Book, [PU: Duke University Press]<

ISBN: 9780822345268

""Hitting the Brakes" is an important and enjoyable book. Cars are fascinating, and the opportunity to see how a significant safety system, antilock brakes, became part of them should int… Más…

""Hitting the Brakes" is an important and enjoyable book. Cars are fascinating, and the opportunity to see how a significant safety system, antilock brakes, became part of them should interest anyone curious to learn how the cars we drive came to be as they are. But this book is more than an enjoyable history. It fundamentally rethinks how we understand engineering and the knowledge that engineers create. It will challenge philosophers to better understand knowledge and historians to better understand the development of knowledge. "Hitting the Brakes" is at once a social history of engineering communities, a philosophical thesis about engineering knowledge, and a great story."--Davis Baird, author of "Thing Knowledge: A Philosophy of Scientific Instruments" Media >, [PU: Duke University Press]<