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Paperboy--Confessions of a Future Engineer
Category: Biography
Author: Henry Petroski
Copyright/published Year: 2002 by Knopf
ISBN: 0-375-41353-7
Binding: Cloth
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 York-a borough of handball games and
inexplicably numbered streets-he winningly shows how his
after-school job amounted to a prep course in practical
engineering.
Petroksi's paper was The Long Island Press, whose headlines ran
to COP SAVES OLD WOMAN FROM THUG and DiMAG SAYS BUMS CAN'T WIN
SERIES. Folding it into a tube suitable for throwing was an
exercise in post-Euclidean 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
penny-pitching. With gratifying reflections on these and other
lessons of a bygone era-lessons about diligence, labor, and
community-mindedness-Paperboy is a piece of Americana to cherish
and reread.
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