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The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester

The Perfectionists

How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World

by Simon Winchester
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  • May 8, 2018, 432 pages
  • Paperback:
  • May 2019, 416 pages
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Bonner

Not his best book
I have read and enjoyed literally every book by Simon Winchester but found this one hard to read. A book about precision needs to be precise, detailed and accurate and this is what the author must have tried to achieve. Just that he loses the reader who I assume would be (like me) more interested in the history than every single technical detail. Still some interesting morsels here and there but overall... I was happy when it was all over.
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