The perfectionists : how precision engineers created the modern world

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ISBN: 9780062652553
Physical Description xii, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.

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The Perfectionists : How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Winchester, Simon

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	List of Illustrations	p. xi
	Prologue	p. 1
Chapter 1	Stars, Seconds, Cylinders, and Steam	p. 23
Chapter 1	Extremely Flat and Incredibly Close	p. 53
Chapter 3	A Gun In Every Home, a Clock in Every Cabin	p. 81
Chapter 4	On The Verge of a More Perfect World	p. 107
Chapter 5	The Irresistible Lure Of The Highway	p. 129
Chapter 6	Precision and Peril, Six Miles High	p. 173
Chapter 7	Through a Glass, Distinctly	p. 215
Chapter 8	Where Am I, and What is the Time?	p. 255
Chapter 9	Squeezing Beyond Boundaries	p. 275
Chapter 10	On The Necessity for Equipoise	p. 307
	Afterword: The Measure of all Things	p. 331
	Acknowledgments	p. 357
	A Glossary of Possibly Unfamiliar Terms	p. 361
	Bibliography	p. 369
	Index	p. 375