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Grady Hillhouse

Grady Hillhouse's next book, Disasters by Design, releases March 25, 2027.

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Disasters by DesignOut March 25, 2027

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Grady Hillhouse is an American author and civil engineer, best known for his YouTube channel Practical Engineering.

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Disasters by Design March 25, 2027

How history’s most infamous disasters shaped the field of engineering, from the creator of the popular YouTube channel Practical Engineering When a giant bridge collapses, a gas explosion blows up a building, or a major dam bursts, it’s hard not to wonder how things could have gone so catastrophically wrong. According to Grady Hillhouse, those failures are the defining force of engineering, where the most important lessons have been learned the hard way.

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Engineering in Plain Sight November 1, 2022

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 (over 4.5 million subscribers!) and this book is essentially 50 new episodes crammed between two covers. Engineering in Plain Sight extends the field guide genre from natural phenomena to human-made structures, making them approachable and understandable to non-engineers.

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