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The perfectionists : how precision engineers created the modern world /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Winchester, Simon (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Business book summary.
Subjects:
Engineering > History.
Technological innovations > History.
Machine design > History.
Metrology > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Stars, 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.