The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: November 26, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of
The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of...
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The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Trade Paperback, 464 pages
On Sale: November 4, 2008
Price: $15.95
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of
The Pencil.
From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of...
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The Toothpick
Technology and Culture
Written by Henry Petroski
Format: Hardcover, 464 pages
On Sale: October 16, 2007
Price: $27.95
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The Pencil, Henry Petroski’s
The Toothpick is a celebration of a humble yet elegant device. As old as mankind and as universal as eating, this useful and ubiquitous tool finally gets its due in this wide-ranging and compulsively readable book. Here is the unexpected story of the simplest of implements—whether...
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