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Henry Petroski's witty and unexpected history of the pencil includes a wide range of characters: from the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and Toulouse-Lautrec, who declared, 'I am a pencil', to the great nineteenth-century manufacturing families, such as Dixon and Faber. Petroski charmingly celebrates the design history of one of mankind's most essential, and yet undervalued, tools.

Author Biography:

Henry Petroski is the A.S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a Professor of History at Duke University. His other books include To Engineer is Human, The Evolution of Useful Things and The Book on the Bookshelf.
Release date Australia
April 7th, 2003
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Edition
Main
Pages
448
Dimensions
140x233x30
ISBN-13
9780571217632
Product ID
2299177

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