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Winchester, Simon, author.
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Engineering -- History.
Technological innovations -- History.
Machine design -- History.
Metrology.
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The Perfectionists : How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World / Simon Winchester.
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Winchester, Simon, author.
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Engineering -- History.
Technological innovations -- History.
Machine design -- History.
Metrology.
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9780062652553
0062652559
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xii, 395 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
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First edition.
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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.
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