The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Nov 10, 1992 - Technology & Engineering - 448 pages
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.

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Contents

What We Forget
3
Of Names Materials and Things
15
Before the Pencil
24
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of more than a dozen books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine. 

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