Editing Rescuing Prometheus

{{Short description|1998 book by Thomas P. Hughes}}
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'''''Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World''''' (1998<!--as first published according to Goodreads, which is generally solid on original dates-->) is a book by [[Thomas P. Hughes]].  The book uses four extremely large engineering projects of the late 20th century as examples to explore how the limits of modern [[system engineering]] are stressed by real life projects.  It also traces the development of the management of large technical system development.<ref>{{cite news|author=Garten, Jeffrey E.|author-link=Jeffrey Garten|title=Review: ''Rescuing Prometheus'' by Thomas P. Hughes|date=20 September 1998|newspaper=NY Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/20/reviews/980920.20gartent.html}}</ref>

The book documents four massively-cooperative projects:

* [[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment]] (SAGE), a computer- and radar-based air-defense system
* The [[Atlas (missile)|Atlas]] project, which produced America's first [[ICBM]]
* [[Boston]]'s [[Central Artery/Tunnel Project]], a traffic-unclogging system of highways, tunnels and bridges originally scheduled for completion in 2004
* [[ARPANET]], an interactive computer-based information network that paved the way for the Internet

==See also ==
*[[Large Technical System]]

==References==
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*[https://books.google.com/books/about/Rescuing_Prometheus.html?id=txprzlfS4ksC ''Rescuing Prometheus: Four Monumental Projects That Changed the Modern World''] ({{ISBN|0-679-73938-6}}) by Thomas P. Hughes, 2000.
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