One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw is a book published in 2000 by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.

[1] The idea for the book came in 1999 when an editor at The New York Times Magazine asked Rybczynski to write a short essay on the best and most useful common tool of the previous 1,000 years.

Rybczynski took the assignment, but as he researched the history of the items in his workshop – hammers and saws, levels and planes – he found that most dated well back into antiquity.

Leonardo da Vinci was there at the start, designing a number of screw-cutting machines with interchangeable gears.

The book has been noted as relying on outdated histories and revealing of Rybczynski's "unfamiliarity with mechanical processes" but has been compared with Samuel C. Florman's works towards improving the public understanding of a technical field.