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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester (Paperback, 2019)
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It challenges us to reflect on our progress as humans and what has made it possible. Precision is the key to everything. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson. Precision is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we value in our daily lives - a camera, phone, computer, bicycle, car, a dishwasher perhaps - all sport components that fit together with precision and operate with near perfection. We also assume that the more precise a device the better it is. And yet whilst we live lives peppered and larded with precision, we are not, when we come to think about it, entirely sure what precision is, or what it means. How and when did it begin to build the modern world? Simon Winchester seeks to answer these questions through stories of precision's pioneers. Exactly takes us back to the origins of the Industrial Age, to Britain where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. Thomas Jefferson exported their discoveries to the United States as manufacturing developed in the early twentieth century, with Britain's Henry Royce developing the Rolls Royce and Henry Ford mass producing cars, Hattori's Seiko and Leica lenses, to today's cutting-edge developments from Europe, Asia and North America. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-139780008241780
eBay Product ID (ePID)21046704744
Product Key Features
Number of Pages416 Pages
Publication NameExactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
LanguageEnglish
SubjectEngineering & Technology, Science, Evolution
Publication Year2019
TypeTextbook
AuthorSimon Winchester
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight370 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorSimon Winchester
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- 18 Sep, 2019
Exactly as Expected
The first couple of chapters are a little overwritten (never use one word when 50will do) but it then becomes a really interesting book to those with an interest in all things scientific and manufacturing.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 17 Mar, 2021
short and sweet
very informativeVerified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 21 May, 2020
Precision engineering from historical and current perspectives
Bought as a present for a retired engineer. He thoroughly enjoyed reading it and found it really interesting. So-much-so he's finished it in about 3 days!Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 04 Dec, 2019
Unputdownable
Great study of the subject, first accessed thru a Radio 4 series.Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- 23 Dec, 2020
Interesting
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- 10 May, 2024
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Book as expected.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
- 08 Dec, 2021
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