The Perfectionists
How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Precision is so essential a component of contemporary human life and existence that we seldom stop to think about it. Simon Winchester’s The Perfectionists examines the relatively recent development of the notion of precision—the people who developed it and the ways in which it has shaped the modern world—and the challenges posed and losses risked by our veneration and pursuit of increasingly precise tools and methods.The history of precision as a concept and in practice begins in England with its originators: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who first exported their d…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-06-265256-0
- EAN: 9780062652560
- Produktnummer: 28234669
- Verlag: Harper Collins (US)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 416 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H20.4 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.7 cm 307 g
- Gewicht: 307
Über den Autor
Simon Winchester is the acclaimed author of many books, including The Professor and the Madman, The Men Who United the States, The Map That Changed the World, The Man Who Loved China, A Crack in the Edge of the World, and Krakatoa, all of which were New York Times bestsellers and appeared on numerous best and notable lists. In 2006, Winchester was made an officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Her Majesty the Queen. He resides in western Massachusetts.
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