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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
One Good Turn A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
Author: Witold Rybczynski
An ordinary thing explained extraordinarily. — The seeds of Rybczynski’s elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying “the best tool of the millennium.” An award-winning author who once built a house using only hand tools, Rybczynski has intimat...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780965045438
ISBN-10: 0965045439
Publication Date: 2000
Pages: 388
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Publisher: Scribner
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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A very readable survey of a lot of technological history, with anecdotes and byways of research.


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