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How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

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The Perfectionists

Auteur(s): Simon Winchester
Narrateur(s): Simon Winchester
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The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement—precision—in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.

The rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools—machines that make machines. Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras—and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider.

Simon Winchester takes us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today’s cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia.

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?

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Loved the story and all of the facts. Narrator easy to listen to. I am going to listen to another book of his this month.

Compelling Listen, Great Narration

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I liked this book, but not as much as I have liked Simon’s other books. I found it a wee bit hard to get into, yet there were certain aspects that drew me in completely: precision ground mirrors (think Hubble), computer chips, Swiss watches. I think there is something for everyone here.

Good

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Enjoyed overall. I found the earlier and mid chapters more engrossing than last few, but no complaints.

Interesting and Informative

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Perfection is elusive in many ways unless you explain its drive in some to make what we produce and how we know how well we have done, as explained by Simon Winchester. The book is not an account of the obsessions of a few but how the drive for perfection has become such an integral part of our everyday lives. As technology continues to evolve so does our ability to make improvements in our lives in ways this book makes fascinatingly clear. There is a pleasant blend of "I never realized that!" to well, most of the cornerstones of our lives from production to the measurement of time. You will never see or speak of a Rolls the same way again, or a Ford for that matter. It makes enlightenment a pleasure.

This in its way, gets it right, so to speak

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Of you enjoy wrenching, building, crafting, machining, metal fabrication

this is a must listen or read

Best Listen of my Audible career to date

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#Audible1. As always, Mr. Winchester is able to take what would often be considered a dry subject, and weave a true story that both teaches and captivates.

Providing excitement to dry topics

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