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Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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Simon Winchester traces the development of precision engineering from early measuring instruments and standardized parts to modern manufacturing, optics, computing, and scientific technology. Exactly follows inventors, engineers, workshops, and industries whose increasingly exact methods made mass production and complex machines possible. The book is a narrative history of measurement and engineering, showing how tolerances measured in ever-smaller fractions transformed transportation, communication, medicine, and the built world.

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