The Pencil by Henry Petroski

The Pencil

Henry Petroski

434 pages paperback 1992

3 editions

nonfiction history science informative slow-paced
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Petroski's witty and unexpected history of the pencil includes a wide range of characters: from the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and Toulouse-Lautrec to the great 19th century manufacturing families, such as Dixon and Faber.

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