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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
The Toothpick Technology and Culture
Author: Henry Petroski
A celebration culture and technology, as seen through the history of the humble yet ubiquitous toothpick, from the best-selling author of The Pencil. — From ancient Rome, where emperor Nero made his entrance into a banquet hall with a silver toothpick in his mouth, to nineteenth-century Boston, where Charles Forster, the father of the Amer...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307279439
ISBN-10: 030727943X
Publication Date: 11/4/2008
Pages: 464
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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