One good turn : a natural history of the screwdriver and the screw / Witold Rybczynski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2000Description: 173 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 068486729X
  • 9780684867298
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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.
Summary: " ... a story of mechanical discovery and genius ..."--Jacket.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TJ1201.S34 R93 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000045910

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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