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Simon Winchester | a History of Precision Engineering and the Making of the Modern World

Hidden Forces

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The Difference Between Precision and Accuracy

In the English language, there are no synonyms. Precision and accuracy are not synonyms. If you can achieve precision and accuracy, then you're absolutely off to the races. So tolerance is a crucial and critical aspect of precision engineering. The making of interchangeable parts such that if a part fails, you just get another one out of the box and it fits perfectly. Those things lie at the center of this book.

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