Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer,Used

Paperboy: Confessions of a Future Engineer,Used

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Anyone wondering what sort of experience prepares one for a future as an engineer may be surprised to learn that it includes delivering newspapers. But as Henry Petroski recounts his youth in 1950s Queens, New Yorka borough of handball games and inexplicably numbered streetshe winningly shows how his afterschool job amounted to a prep course in practical engineering.Petroksis paper was The Long Island Press, whose headlines ran to COP SAVES OLD WOMAN FROM THUG and DiMAG SAYS BUMS CANT WIN SERIES. Folding it into a tube suitable for throwing was an exercise in postEuclidean geometry. Maintaining a Schwinn revealed volumes about mechanics. Reading Paperboy, we also learn about the hazing rituals of its namesakes, the aesthetics of kitchen appliances, and the delicate art of pennypitching. With gratifying reflections on these and other lessons of a bygone eralessons about diligence, labor, and communitymindednessPaperboy is a piece of Americana to cherish and reread.

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