The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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Book Overview
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0062652567
ISBN13:9780062652560
Release Date:May 2019
Publisher:Harper Perennial
Length:416 Pages
Weight:0.73 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
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More amazing detail than I could have imagined.
Published by Al Zelley , 5 years ago
In spite of being quite knowledgeable about today's technology, integrated circuits in particular, I was completely taken away by the details dug up to reveal just how "precision" was the essential foundation for everything which we have achieved today. "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" had been on the top of my list of favorites, until "The Perfectionists" took over that ranking.
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