One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw

Rybczynski, Witold

ISBN 10: 068486729X / ISBN 13: 9780684867298

Published by Scribner, New York, New York, U.S.A., 2000

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Signed by author on title page. Gift inscription to previous owner on ffep.

Seller Inventory # 2457H84246

Bibliographic Details

• Title: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
• Publisher: Scribner, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068486729X
• ISBN 13: 9780684867298
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • 09-batch-04001-05000

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Synopsis

A fascinating history of one humankind's simplest but most essential tools traces the history of the screwdriver from a sketch in da Vinci's pad to a later patent and mass production. By the author of A Clearing in the Distance.

About the Author

Witold Rybczynski, born in Edinburgh, raised in Canada, and currently living in Philadelphia, is the Meyerson Professor of Urbanism at the University of Pennsylvania. He has written on architecture and urbanism for The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and Slate, and is the author of the critically acclaimed Home and the A Clearing in the Distance, a biography of frederick Law Olmsted, for which he was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. He is the recipient of the National Building Museum’s 2007 Vincent Scully Prize.