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Find more info., search and price compare for One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw by Witold Rybczynski Binding: Paperback, 176 pages Publisher: Scribner Weight: 0.38 pound Dimension: H: 0.47 x L: 7.56 x W: 5.08 inches ISBN 10: 0684867303 ISBN 13: 9780684867304 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: The Best Tool of the Millennium 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 intimate knowledge of the toolbox both its contents and its history which serves him beautifully on his quest. One Good Turn is a story starring Archimedes, who invented the water screw and introduced the helix, and Leonardo, who sketched a machine for carving wood screws. It is a story of mechanical discovery and genius that takes readers from ancient Greece to car design in the age of American industry. Rybczynski writes an ode to the screw, without which there would be no telescope, no microscope in short, no enlightenment science. One of our finest cultural and architectural historians, Rybczynski renders a graceful, original, and engaging portrait of the tool that changed the course of civilization. |
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