THE MADE WORLD

How Six Industries Turn on a Single Physical Fact, and What Happened Each Time Somebody Finally Went and Looked

von Cornelis van Houte

732 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This volume collects six books, complete and unabridged: Industrial Engineering in 100 Facts, Steel in 100 Facts, Concrete in 100 Facts, Glass in 100 Facts, Rubber in 100 Facts, and Nuclear Energy in 100 Facts.

Written for the general reader as a work of history and science reporting, The Made World explores how vast industrial systems and materials are anchored by single, small physical or arithmetical facts. From the queuing curves that dictate hospital and motorway bottlenecks, to the traces of carbon that turn soft iron into steel; from the chemical reactions of concrete that defy the idea of "drying," to the glass state defined by a failure to crystallize; from the rubber chains of the Amazon boom to the delayed neutrons that make a nuclear reactor controllable-this omnibus uncovers the mechanics behind the built world.

Traversing history, science, and human error-including the myths surrounding Henry Ford's assembly line, Taylor's time studies, the Hawthorne effect, and the realities of wartime operational research-Cornelis van Houte reveals how things are actually made and why our systems behave the way they do.

Dr. Cornelis van Houte is a business consultant and studied industrial engineering.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798175897853
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.09.2026
• Größe: 254 x 178 mm
• Verlag: Independently published