The toothpick
technology and culture
1st Vintage Books ed.
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Word Count
110,750 words, Guess
Page Count
443 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetoothpicktechnol0000petr_q9r8
- Internet Archivetoothpicktechnol0000petr_g6p6
- ISBN-139780307279439
- ISBN-10030727943X
- Goodreads6016479
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- LibraryThing3377590
- Library of Congress Control Number2009293523
- Better World Books9780307279439
- Open LibraryOL23165989M
Classifications
- LCCGT2952 .P48 2008
Description
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 American wooden toothpick industry, ensured toothpicks appeared in every restaurant, the toothpick has been an omnipresent, yet often overlooked part of our daily lives. Here, with an engineer's eye for detail and a poet's flair for language, Henry Petroski takes us on an incredible tour of this most interesting invention. Along the way, he peers inside today's surprisingly secretive toothpick-manufacturing industry, and explores a treasure trove of the toothpick's unintended uses and perils, from sandwiches to martinis and beyond.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Other Editions
- The toothpick: technology and culture
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