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000858655 1001_ $$aWinchester, Simon,$$eauthor.
000858655 24514 $$aThe perfectionists :$$bhow precision engineers created the modern world /$$cSimon Winchester.
000858655 24630 $$aHow precision engineers created the modern world
000858655 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000858655 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bHarper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,$$c[2018]
000858655 300__ $$axii, 395 pages :$$billustrations, portraits ;$$c24 cm
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000858655 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000858655 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 369-374) and index.
000858655 5050_ $$aStars, seconds, cylinders, and steam -- Extremely flat and incredibly close -- A gun in every home, a clock in every cabin -- On the verge of a more perfect world -- The irresistible lure of the highway -- Precision and peril, six miles high -- Through a looking glass, distinctly -- Where am I, and what is the time? -- Squeezing beyond boundaries -- On the necessity for equipoise -- The measure of all things.
000858655 520__ $$a"The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement--precision--in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future."--Amazon.com.
000858655 520__ $$a"Precision is so essential a component of modern human life and existence that we seldom stop to think about it. [This book] examines the relatively recent development of the notion of precision--the people who developed it and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world--and the challenges posed and losses risked by our veneration and pursuit of increasingly precise tools and methods. The history of precision as a concept and in practice begins in England with its originators: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who first exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools--machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods in the development of guns, glass, mirrors, lenses, and cameras gave way to further advancements, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider. The fundamental questions at the heart of The Perfectionists are these: Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultraprecise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural coexist in society?"--Jacket.
000858655 650_0 $$aEngineering$$xHistory.
000858655 650_0 $$aTechnological innovations$$xHistory.
000858655 650_0 $$aMachine design$$xHistory.
000858655 650_0 $$aMetrology$$xHistory.
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