One Good Turn (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Witold Rybczynski
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Essays
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: History, Inventions or inventors, Tools
Witold Rybczynski is fascinated with tools. In Home: A Short History of an Idea (1987), he described how he built a house with only hand tools. He combined his love for architecture and history in A Clearing in the Distance (1999), a biography of the nineteenth century American architect Frederick Law Olmstead. One Good Turn is the natural product of these earlier books. In his quest for evidence of screwdrivers and screws, Rybczynski moves back in time from the year 2000 to the Greek inventor Archimedes (c. 287-212 b.c.e.).
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