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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 Joys of Precision

The Japanese have a love for the imprecise, they worship bamboo in just the same way that they worship titanium. Was that near your mind while you were writing this book? It wasn't at all, but I do have my very clever Japanese wife who kept saying to me, reminding me that the Japanese have it in perspective. And what I do quite deliberately is to compare two iconic motor cars, which were built almost exactly the same period of time from 1908 to 1927.

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