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HENRY PETROSKI is a professor of engineering and of history at Duke University. He has written a number of books on the history of everyday objects, among them The Pencil, The Evolution of Useful Things, and The Book on the Bookshelf. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and he lectures nationally and internationally on topics small and large.

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