Ebook: The evolution of useful things: how everyday artifacts - from forks and pins to paper clips and zippers - came to be as they are
Author: Petroski Henry
- Tags: Experiments & Projects, Industrial Design, Product, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, Patents, Industrial design, Inventions, Electronic books
- Year: 1992
- Publisher: Vintage
- City: New York
- Language: English
- epub
???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. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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