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Animal-powered Machines
Written by J.Kenneth Major
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $11.95
This is a book about a little known element in the history of motive power, the animal powered machine. Windmills and watermills survive in most parts of Britain, but animal-powered machines, whether vertical treadwheels or horizontal horse engines, are hardly known, despite the significant contribution they made to the history of... Read more >
Written by J.Kenneth Major
Format: Trade Paperback, 40 pages
On Sale: October 21, 2008
Price: $11.95
This is a book about a little known element in the history of motive power, the animal powered machine. Windmills and watermills survive in most parts of Britain, but animal-powered machines, whether vertical treadwheels or horizontal horse engines, are hardly known, despite the significant contribution they made to the history of... Read more >
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Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Henry Petroski, “America’s poet laureate of technology” (Kirkus Reviews)–author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things–now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers... Read more >
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $14.95
Henry Petroski, “America’s poet laureate of technology” (Kirkus Reviews)–author of The Pencil and The Evolution of Useful Things–now gives us an entertaining and perceptive study of design in everyday life, while revealing the checkered pasts, and some possible futures, of familiar objects.
Chairs, lightbulbs, cup holders, toothbrushes, doorknobs, light switches, potato peelers... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Small Things Considered
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski... Read more >
Why There Is No Perfect Design
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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