Full name: The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

Author: Henry Petroski Year: 1992 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Science Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780679734154 0679734155

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. Similar books: Engineers of Dreams by Henry Petroski The Toothpick by Henry Petroski The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski Seven Wonders of the Industrial World by Deborah Cadbury A Thread Across the Ocean by John Steele Gordon Small Things Considered by Henry Petroski 1491 by Charles C. Mann The Great Influenza by John M. Barry 1493 by Charles C. Mann Connections by James Burke Polio by David M. Oshinsky The Codebreakers by David Kahn A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester The Big Oyster by Mark Kurlansky The American Plague by Molly Caldwell Crosby The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen Beyond Uncertainty by David C. Cassidy Project Orion by George Dyson Defenders of the Truth by Ullica Segerstrale The Little Ice Age by Brian Fagan