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Engineering Failures of the 20th & 21st Centuries: Books at the Linda Hall Library II

Linda Hall Library has one of the best engineering collections in the country. This research guide highlights some resources in our collection related to selected engineering failures of the last 100 years.

Space Shuttle Columbia (2003)

Columbia - Final Voyage by Philip Chien
Call Number: TL795.5.C55 2006
The Story of the Space Shuttle by David M. Harland
Call Number: Tl795.5.H37 2004
Bringing Columbia Home by Eileen Collins (Epilogue by); Robert Crippen (Foreword by); Michael D. Leinbach; Jonathan H. Ward
Call Number: TL867 .L45 2018
ISBN: 9781628728514
Comm Check...: the final flight of Shuttle Columbia by Michael Cabbage; William B. Harwood; William Harwood
Call Number: TL867.C33 2004

Space Shuttle Challenger (1986)

Truth, Lies, and O-Rings by Allan J. McDonald; James R. Hansen
Call Number: TL867.M36 2009
Report to the President by U.S. Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
Call Number: TL867.U55 1986 v.1 - v.5
The Challenger Launch Decision by Diane Vaughan
Call Number: TL867.V38 1996

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant (1986)

The Politics of Invisibility by Olga Kuchinskaya
Call Number: 2nd Floor RA569 .K88 2014
ISBN: 9780262027694
Manual for Survival by Kate Brown
Call Number: 2nd Floor TD196.R3 B785 2019
ISBN: 9780393652512
Groundwater Vulnerability by Boris Faybishenko (Editor); Alexander Bohuslavsky; Volodymir Bublias; Thomas J. Nicholson (Editor); Vyacheslav Shestopalov
Call Number: 2nd Floor TD426 .G77 2015
ISBN: 9781118962190
Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
Call Number: 2nd Floor TK1362.U38 P66 2018
ISBN: 9781541617094
Chernobyl: catastrophe and consequences by Jim Smith; Nicholas A. Beresford
Call Number: TD196.R3 S52 2005
The Chornobyl Accident: a comprehensive risk assessment by George J. Vargo (Editor); Victor Poyarkov; V. G. Baryakhtar; Valerie Kukhar; Ivan Los; Vladimir Kholosha; Vyacheslav Shestopalov
Call Number: TD898.14R57 C48 2000
Chernobyl--the real story by Richard F. Mould
Call Number: TK1362.S65 M68 1988
Publication Date: 1988
Chernobyl Record: the definitive history of the Chernobyl catastrophe by R. F. Mould
Call Number: TK1362.S65 M678 2000
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Chernobyl, insight from the inside by V. M. Chernousenko
Call Number: TK1362.S65C44 1991
The Legacy of Chernobyl by Zhores A. Medvedev
Call Number: TK1362.S65M429 1990
ISBN: :9780851248035

Bhopal (1984)

Environments at Risk: case histories of impact assessment by Derek Ellis
Call Number: TD194.6.E54 1989
The Chemical Industry after Bhopal: an international symposium held in London, 7/8th Nov. 1985
Call Number: TP201.C47 1985

New Orleans Levees (2005)

The Storm: what went wrong and why during hurricane Katrina by Mike Bryan; Ivor Van Heerden
Call Number: QC945.V36 2006
Perilous Place, Powerful Storms: hurricane protection in coastal Louisiana by Craig E. Colten
Call Number: TC425.M63 C65 2009
The New Orleans Hurricane Protection System by American Society of Civil Engineers Staff (Contribution by); Hurricane Katrina External Review Panel Staff
Call Number: TH1096.N48 2007
ISBN: 9780784408933

World Trade Center (2001)

Final report on the collapse of the World Trade Center towers by National Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.)
Call Number: C 13.2:C 68 Gov Docs
Publication Date: 2005
World Trade Center The Giants That Defied the Sky by Peter Skinner; Mike Wallace (Preface by)
Call Number: NA6233.N5S55 2002 Folios
ISBN: 158663612X
Urban Aerosols and Their Impacts: lessons learned from the World Trade Center Tragedy by Jeffrey S. Gaffney (Editor); Nancy A. Marley (Editor)
Call Number: TD884.5.U72 2003