![]() ![]() 3 Project Butch Strickland and his tall-tower boys and the Los Angeles County Fire Department.You taught me that a little fear goes a good, long way. These include Haverfield and its high-voltage crew Dyno Nobel Blue Goose Drilling the New York Water Tunnel No. My gratitude goes out to the companies and agencies that let me inside to be a fly on the wall. My hat is off to all employees who do the tough and risky work while the rest of us sleep, and to world-class engineers, like Les Robertson, who make sure our great structures will stand upįor as long as we want to take care of them. My employers at the state of Minnesota have put up with some short-notice vacation slips over the last ten years when I had to chase a story.Thank you for the support.Writing is fun but I value that day job, too. In 1983 Don Moser and Jack Wiley of Smithsonian gave a new writer a chance to pursue a crazy idea about how great structures would age if aban doned to the eons.Thanks for letting my nose in the tent. Your patience and humor brought me through. Equal thanks to Dave Conti and Amanda Maciel of HarperBusiness for catching it. My appreciation to Jay Mandel of the William Morris Agency for expert help in tossing that long ball downfield. and Dan, for the friendship and encouragement they offered at every turn, from our chemistry-set days to the present. My three boys and parents-in-law cheerfully bore all adversities, from grouchiness to papers stacked in all the wrong places. My love to Chris for the indomitable way she held the family fort during the time it took me to bring back the story. SURVIVING AND THRIVING ON THE NEW FRONTIERĭ i s a s t e r s, C alamitie s, a n d N e ar M i s s e s C it e d in t h eĪbout the Author Praise Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisherįamily. PANIC AND TRIUMPH ON THE MACHINE FRONTIER ON THE MACHINE FRONTIER: NEW TECHNOLOGY ANDīAFFLED AND BEWILDERED INSIDE THE MASSIVE SYSTEM S p e cial I n t rod uc tion to t h e Pap e r b ack E dition I n t rod uc tion “The horror of that moment,” the King went on, “I shall never, never forget.” “You will, though,” the Queen said,“if you don’t make a memorandum of it.” -Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass (1871) I’ve never known people who worked so hard ![]() L E S S ONS FR O M THE EDG E OF T E C HNO L O GYĪN INSIDE LOOK AT CATASTROPHES AND WHY THEY HAPPEN ![]()
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