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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 History of Precision Engineering

The idea for the book came from a reader, Colin Povey. He said he had often wondered whether someone should write a history of precision engineering. The first thing which one can say legitimately was precise was a cylinder made in 1776 on May 4th. That gave me the narrative thrust of the book,. And mercifully, the reviewers have too, so everyone wins.

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