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The whole of the engineer’s design work is carried out under a strain which it would not be an exaggeration to call tragic. The strain is evident in everything Man does, and comes from the insuperable discrepancy that always exists between what we would like to produce and what we are able to produce.
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Leyer, A. (1974). Elements of design. In: Urry, S. (eds) Machine Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6006-3_16
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