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The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are. - Couverture souple

Petroski, Henry

 
9780679740391: The Evolution of Useful Things: How Everyday Artifacts-From Forks and Pins to Paper Clips and Zippers-Came to be as They are.
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ISBN 10 : 0679740392 ISBN 13 : 9780679740391
Editeur : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1994

Synopsis

   How did the table fork acquire a fourth tine?  What advantage does the Phillips-head screw have over its single-grooved predecessor? Why does the paper clip look the way it does? What makes Scotch tape Scotch?

   In this delightful book Henry, Petroski takes a microscopic look at artifacts that most of us count on but rarely contemplate, including such icons of the everyday as pins, Post-its, and fast-food "clamshell" containers.  At the same time, he offers a convincing new theory of technological innovation as a response to the perceived failures of existing products—suggesting that irritation, and not necessity, is the mother of invention.

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À propos de l'auteur

Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. The author of more than a dozen previous books, he lives in Durham, North Carolina, and Arrowsic, Maine.

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Éditeur
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679740392
ISBN 13 
9780679740391
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
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Personne responsable
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