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You can read Leonard Read's masterful 1958 essay on the miracle of something as humble as a pencil ("I, Pencil") here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdP
by Umalu 16y ago
You can read Leonard Read's masterful 1958 essay on the miracle of something as humble as a pencil ("I, Pencil") here: http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
- billswift 16y agoThat is an excellent essay, probably why the "artist" used a pencil in the first place. And Henry Petroski did a whole book on the evolution of the design of the pencil in the early 1990s: http://www.amazon.com/Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance/dp/0679734155/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292925202&sr=8-1 http://www.amazon.com/Pencil-History-Design-Circumstance/dp/...