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Engineering in Plain Sight: An Illustrated Field Guide to the Constructed Environment

Engineering in Plain Sight is a beautifully illustrated field guide with accessible explanations to nearly every part of the constructed world around us. Author Grady Hillhouse is the creator behind the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering. This book extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them approachable and understandable to non-engineers. It transforms readers' perspectives of the built environment, converting the act of looking at infrastructure from a mundane inevitability into an everyday diversion and joy. Each section features colorful illustrations revealing the fascinating details of how the human-made world works, covering the electrical grid, roadways, railways, bridges, tunnels, waterways, and more.

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