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Cover of Pencil -A History of Design and Circumstance (®)

Pencil -A History of Design and Circumstance (®)

✍ Scribed by Petroski, Henry

Book ID
107814007
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2011
Tongue
en-US
Weight
5 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780307772435

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✦ Synopsis

Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

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