One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw - Hardcover

Rybczynski, Witold

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743208498 ISBN 13: 9780743208499

Verlag: Simon & Schuster, 2000

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Texto en inglés. Tapa dura con sobrecubierta de editorial ilustrada. Sin subrayados ni anotaciones. Perfecto estado de conservación. 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.' The award-winning author of Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down, Rybczynski once built a house using only hand tools. His intimate knowledge of the toolbox -- both its contents and its history -- 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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From a da Vinci sketch to a Phillips, this is the story of the partnership between the screw and the screwdriver, the people who perfected it, and the innovations that made it possible.

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• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0743208498
• ISBN 13: 9780743208499
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176