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Author: Henry Petroski Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0679734155 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
Author: Eileen O'Hely Publisher: Mercier PressLtd ISBN: 9781856354752 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Penny the Pencil is a clever little pencil who is very good at spelling and sums, but not so good at remembering the pencil case rules. When the nasty Black Texta and his sidekick Rubber catch Penny helping her owner with a spelling test, terrible events unfold.
Author: Henry Petroski Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0679734155 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
Author: Carol Beggy Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501392220 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 153
Book Description
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destroyed. To love a pencil is to use it, to sharpen it, and to essentially destroy it. Pencils were used to sketch civilization's greatest works of art. Pencils were there marking the choices in the earliest democratic elections. Even when used haphazardly to mark out where a saw's blade should make a cut, a pencil is creating. Pencil offers a deep look at this common, almost ubiquitous, object. Pencils are a simple device that are deceptively difficult to manufacture. At a time when many use cellphones as banking branches and instructors reach students online throughout the world, pencil use has not waned, with tens of millions being made and used annually. Carol Beggy sketches out how the lowly pencil is still a mighty useful tool. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.
Author: Henry Petroski
Author: Eileen O'Hely
Author: Eileen O'Hely
Author: Henry Petroski
Author: Carol Beggy
Author: Eileen O'Hely
Author: Perry and co, ltd
Author: Thomas Power O'Connor
Author: National Union of Teachers
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means
Author: C. Hossfeld