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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw [Audiobook] download free by Witold Rybczynski

One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw Audiobook download free by Witold Rybczynski
  • Listen audiobook: One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
  • Author: Witold Rybczynski
  • Release date: 2001/2/4
  • Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
  • Language: English
  • Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
  • ISBN: 9780684867304
  • Rating: 7.88 of 10
  • Votes: 258
  • Review by: Mabel Burrow
  • Review rating: 7.38 of 10
  • Review Date: 2018/11/16
  • Duration: 2H8M47S in 256 kbps (34.6 MB)
  • Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-20
  • You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP4, MPEG4, MP3, WMA, WAV, FLAC (compression TAR.BZ2, CAB, ZIP, 7Z, RAR)
  • Total pages original book: 173
  • Includes a PDF summary of 14 pages
  • Duration of the summary (audio): 9M52S (2.8 MB)
  • Description or summary of the audiobook: The Best Tool of the Millennium The seeds of Rybczynski's elegant and illuminating new book were sown by The New York Times, whose editors asked him to write an essay identifying 'the best tool of the millennium.' The award-winning author of Home, A Clearing in the Distance, and Now I Sit Me Down, Rybczynski once built a house using only hand tools. His intimate knowledge of the toolbox - both its contents and its history - serves him beautifully on his quest. One Good Turn is a story starring Archimedes, who invented the water screw and introduced the helix, and Leonardo, who sketched a machine for carving wood screws. It is a story of mechanical discovery and genius that takes readers from ancient Greece to car design in the age of American industry. Rybczynski writes an ode to the screw, without which there would be no telescope, no microscope - in short, no enlightenment science. One of our finest cultural and architectural historians, Rybczynski renders a graceful, original, and engaging portrait of the tool that changed the course of civilization.
  • Other categories, genre or collection: History Of Science, Literary Studies: General, Architecture, DIY: General, Inventions & Inventors, History: Specific Events & Topics
  • Download servers: BitShare, MEGA, FileServe, Jirafeau, Torrent, MyUpload. Compressed in TAR.BZ2, CAB, ZIP, 7Z, RAR
  • Format: Paperback
  • Approximate value: 12.98 USD
  • Dimensions: 127x190x13mm
  • Weight: 140g
  • Printed by: Not Available
  • Published in: New York, United States

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