Engineering in Plain Sight
A practising civil engineer explains the cables, pipes, substations and towers you pass every day, turning an ordinary street into something a reader can actually read.
An illustrated field guide to the infrastructure you walk past daily: what each cable on a utility pole does, how water and sewage are routed, why substations look the way they do. Hillhouse is a practising civil engineer, and the book turns ordinary streets into something legible.
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Bill Gates
I wish I'd had Grady Hillhouse's book Engineering in Plain Sight back then. It takes all those mysterious structures you see every day and explains them in a way that's both entertaining and enlightening.
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