Reinventing the Wheel

by Jessica Helfand

Book Overview

Now available in paperback, this delightful book spins the history of the information wheel, as inventive and instructive as intriguing, that has been used since the fourteenth century to measure, record, predict, and calculate everything from time and space to military history to recipes. In this fascinating book, designer and critic Jessica Helfand offers and in-depth look at these unique artifacts, which are not only clever and amusing but, Helfand...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568985967
• ISBN13: 9781568985961
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary