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Description: From Lascaux to Brooklyn
The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski, is a tantalizing book. Here, in the engineer-author’s untechnical language, is a sample of its contents that is both amusing and revealing: “It is said to have been Cardinal Richelieu’s disgust with a frequent dinner guest’s habit of picking his teeth with the pointed end of his knife that drove the prelate to order all his table knives ground down.” Not only does this book tell us about the evolution of such familiar artifacts as flatware, but …
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Related print edition pages: pp.168-175
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00052.016

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