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The Toothpick: Technology and Culture
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| #468589 in Books | 2008-11-04 | 2008-11-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x.94 x5.18l,.95 | File type: PDF | 464 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| great book, i swear!|By susan weber|Got this for my father-in-law along with really great toothpicks and a box to keep them in, since they play a lot of card games involving "everyone gets 6 toothpicks" etc whatever, suggested this book and it really made the gift. he says its a really great book, and when we visit next i am sure he is going to have lots of annoying toothpic|From Publishers Weekly|The toothpick is not just among the simplest of manufactured things, Petroski explains, but one of the oldest: Grooves on fossilized teeth suggest that early hominids might have regularly applied small sticks or even blades of grass to the
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, ye...
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