The perfectionists: how precision engineers created the modern world
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New York [u.a.]
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
2019
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| Ausgabe: | First Harper perennial edition |
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| Abstract: | "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."--Amazon.com |
| Umfang: | xii, 395 Seiten Illustrationen, Porträts 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780062652560 9780062652553 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
LIST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
........................................
XI
PROLOGUE
...............................................
1
CHAPTER
1: STARS,
SECONDS,
CYLINDERS, AND
STEAM
.............
23
CHAPTER
2: EXTREMELY
FLAT
AND INCREDIBLY
CLOSE
.............
53
CHAPTER 3:
A GUN IN EVERY
HOME, A
CLOCK IN EVERY
CABIN........
81
CHAPTER 4:
ON THE VERGE
OF A MORE
PERFECT WORLD
.............
107
CHAPTER
5:
THE
IRRESISTIBLE
LURE
OF THE HIGHWAY
.............
129
CHAPTER
6:
PRECISION
AND
PERIL,
SIX MILES HIGH
...............
173
CHAPTER
7: THROUGH
A GLASS, DISTINCTLY
.....................
215
CHAPTER
8: WHERE AM
I, AND WHAT
IS THE TIME?
...............
255
CHAPTER
9: SQUEEZING
BEYOND BOUNDARIES
...................
275
CHAPTER 10: ON THE
NECESSITY
FOR EQUIPOISE
..................
307
AFTERWORD:
THE MEASURE
OF ALL
THINGS
.....................
331
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
........................................
357
A GLOSSARY
OF
POSSIBLY UNFAMILIAR
TERMS
......................
361
BIBLIOGRAPHY
...........................................
369
INDEX
..................................................
375
$
B1IOTHEK
DEUTSCHES
MUSEUM
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