Henry Petroski Chapter 14 Summary

In chapter 14 Henry Petroski talks about the decline in the quantity of today’s constructions. Today most of our infrastructure is built with low quantity materials and bad workers, which have relatively lower quantities compare to those old time contractures because the developers try to save more money. Under the influence of the society, people start to have an inferior attitude and expectation about all the constructions.
One of the main reasons why people start to lower the standard of constructions is that people’s attitudes toward the constructions have changed from sacred to indifference through the history. Tuchman uses the princely patron as an example and demonstrate that in the ancient time, only a few people who own the power