One good turn : a natural history of the screwdriver and the screw / Witold Rybczynski.
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TextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2000Description: 173 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 068486729X
- 9780684867298
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
chapter 1. The carpenter's toolbox -- chapter 2. Turnscrews -- chapter 3. Lock, stock, and barrel -- chapter 4. The biggest little invention -- chapter 5. Delicate adjustments -- chapter 6. Mechanical bent -- chapter 7. Father of the screw.
" ... a story of mechanical discovery and genius ..."--Jacket.
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Scolarly but popular style written history of a key tool used in horology and eleswhere
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