THE PERFECTIONISTS

The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to exp lore the single component crucial to advancementprecisionin a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future.T he rise of manufacturing could not have happened without an attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eigh teenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine toolsmachines that make machines. ...[Llegir més]