Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created The Modern World Simon Winchester William Collins Αγγλικά Βιβλία Computing And Technology

Shortlisted For The Royal Society Science Book Prize 2018 Bestselling Author Simon Winchester Writes A Magnificent History Of Pioneering Engineers Who Developed Precision Machinery To Allow Us See As Far Moon And Close Higgs Boson Is Key Everything It An Integral Unchallenged Essential Component Our Modern Social Mercantile Scientific Mechanical Intellectual Landscapes Items We Value In Daily Lives – Camera Phone Computer Bicycle Car Dishwasher Perhaps All Sport Components That Fit Together With Operate Near Perfection Also Assume More Precise Device Better Yet Whilst Live Peppered Larded Are Not When Come Think About Entirely Sure What Or Means How Did Begin Build World? Seeks Answer These Questions Through Stories Precision’s Pioneers Exactly Takes Back Origins Industrial Age Britain Where He Introduces Minds Helped Usher Production: John ‘Iron-Mad’ Wilkinson Henry Maudslay Joseph Bramah Jesse Ramsden Whitworth Thomas Jefferson Exported Their Discoveries United States Manufacturing Early Twentieth Century Britain’s Royce Developing Rolls Ford Mass Producing Cars Hattori’s Seiko Leica Lenses Today’s Cutting-Edge Developments From Europe Asia North America Methods Have Changed World Explores Fundamental Why Important? Different Tools Use Measure It? Has Invented Perfected Pursuit Ultra-Precise So Many Facets Human Life Blinded Other Things Equal Such Appreciation Age-Old Traditions Craftsmanship Art High Culture? Missing Something Reflects Rather Than Would Wish Be? Can Natural Co-Exist Society? Σελίδες: 416 Διαστάσεις: 12 9X12 9Cm