The point of it all
Asa Briggs, 25 April 1991
The Pencil: A History
by Henry Petroski.
Faber, 434 pp., £14.99, November 1990,0 571 16182 0 Show More
by Henry Petroski.
Faber, 434 pp., £14.99, November 1990,
“... in its fullest sense is the idea conveyed in the respective words Paper, Pen and Ink?’ asked George Wilson, a future Regius Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University. The subtitle of his article, ‘Paper, Pen and Ink’, published in Macmillans Magazine in 1859, was ‘an excursus in technology’, and he went on to survey all kinds of pens ... ”