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The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance Hardcover - 1990
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- Title The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance
- Author Henry Petroski
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 434
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, New York
- Date January 14, 1990
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780394574226 / 0394574222
- Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
- Dimensions 9.57 x 5.71 x 1.49 in (24.31 x 14.50 x 3.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Pencils - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89045362
- Dewey Decimal Code 674.88
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1990. First Edition [stated], presumed first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. xi, [1], 434 pages. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Format is 5.5 inches by 9.5 inches. Henry Petroski (February 6, 1942) is an American engineer specializing in failure analysis. A professor of history at Duke University. Petroski has written over a dozen books - beginning with To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design and including a number of titles detailing the industrial design history of common, everyday objects, such as pencils, paper clips, and silverware. He is a frequent lecturer and a columnist for the magazines American Scientist and Prism. Before beginning his work at Duke in 1980, Petroski worked at the University of Texas at Austin from 1968-74 and for the Argonne National Laboratory from 1975-80. Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. In 2004,…
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