The Pencil

The PencilBy: Henry Petroski Henry Petroski's witty and unexpected history of the pencil includes a wide range of characters: from the American philosopher Henry David Thoreau, and Toulouse Lautrec, who declared, 'I am a pencil', to the great nineteenth century manufacturing families, such as Dixon and Faber. Petroski charmingly celebrates the design history of one of mankind's most essential, and yet undervalued, tools. 'One of those great books that starts a

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升上二年級，我心中有一萬個「為什麼」！

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