The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Simon Winchester

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062652567
• ISBN13: 9780062652560
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

More amazing detail than I could have imagined.

In spite of being quite knowledgeable about today's technology, integrated circuits in particular, I was completely taken away by the details dug up to reveal just how "precision" was the essential foundation for everything which we have achieved today. "The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation" had been on the top of my list of favorites, until "The Perfectionists" took over that ranking.