The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
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Like most other human artifacts, the common pencil, made and sold today by the millions, has a long and complex history. Henry Petroski, who combines a talent for fine writing with a deep knowledge of engineering and technological history, examines the story of the pencil, considering it not only as a thing in itself, but also as an exemplar of all things that are designed and manufactured. Petroski ranges widely in time, discussing the writing technologies of antiquity. But his story really begins in the early modern period, when, in 1565, a Swiss naturalist first described the properties of the mineral that b
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Manufacturer: Knopf
Release date: 10 November 1992
ISBN-10 : 0679734155 | ISBN-13: 9780679734154
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Release date: 10 November 1992
ISBN-10 : 0679734155 | ISBN-13: 9780679734154
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