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The perfectionists : how precision engineers created the modern world
Item details
- ISBN: 9780062652553
- ISBN: 0062652559
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Physical Description:
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xii, 395 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Contents / Notes
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-374) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Stars, seconds, cylinders, and steam -- Extremely flat and incredibly close -- A gun in every home, a clock in every cabin -- On the verge of a more perfect world -- The irresistible lure of the highway -- Precision and peril, six miles high -- Through a looking glass, distinctly -- Where am I, and what is the time? -- Squeezing beyond boundaries -- On the necessity for equipoise -- The measure of all things. |
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