Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design Petroski HenryPaperback
Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design Petroski HenryPaperback Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? With the same…
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Small Things Considered: Why There Is No Perfect Design Petroski HenryPaperback
Why has the durable paper shopping bag been largely replaced by its flimsy plastic counterpart? With the same relentless curiosity and lucid, witty prose he brought to his earlier books, Henry Petroski looks at some of our most familiar objects and reveals that they are, in fact, works in progress. What circuitous chain of improvements led to such innovations as the automobile cup holder and the swiveling vegetable peeler?
He pays tribute to the little plastic tripod that keeps pizza from sticking to the box and analyzes the numerical layouts of telephones and handheld calculators. For there can never be an end to the quest for the perfect design.To illustrate his thesis, Petroski tells the story of the paper drinking cup, which owes its popularity to the discovery that water glasses could carry germs. Small Things Considered is Petroski at his most trenchant and
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