What Engineers Know and How They Know It: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology) by Walter G. G. Vincenti

To solve their design problems engineers draw in a vast body of knowledge about how things work. This problem-solving knowledge may appear mundane or derivative from science, but in What Engineers Know and How They Know It Walter G.

Vincenti shows how sophisticated and “internal” to engineering it really is-and how seemingly simple design requirements can have complex intellectual implications.