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The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant & illuminating book were sown by The N.Y. Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying "the best tool of the millennium." This is a story starring Archimedes, who invented the water screw & introduced the helix, & Leonardo, who sketched a machine for carving wood screws. It is a story of mechanical discovery & genius that takes you from Ancient Greece to Victorian Glasgow, from weapons design in the Italian Renaissance to car design in the age of Amer. industry. Rybczynski writes an ode to the screw, without which there would be no telescope, no microscope - -in short, no enlightenment science. The screwdriver, perhaps the last hand tool in a world gone cyber, represents the triumph of precision. Ill.
| ISBN-13 | 9780756765880 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0756765889 |
| List Price | $22.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 173 pages |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Published On | 2000-03-01 |
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