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143 reviews for:
EXACTLY: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester
4.04 AVERAGE
143 reviews for:
EXACTLY: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
Simon Winchester, Simon Winchester
4.04 AVERAGE
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
informative
medium-paced
I really enjoy books by Winchester; this is the first one I listened to an audiobook, read by the author. He’s got that from posh British voice that makes everything a
sound smart so I did enjoy that. I can’t give more than three stars, however, because the subject matter just really wasn’t that Interesting to me. I hoped that I would find it more fascinating because of Winchester‘s storytelling abilities, but I ended up in the same place that I began. Still worth a listen though.
sound smart so I did enjoy that. I can’t give more than three stars, however, because the subject matter just really wasn’t that Interesting to me. I hoped that I would find it more fascinating because of Winchester‘s storytelling abilities, but I ended up in the same place that I began. Still worth a listen though.
Interesting book. Got the idea. Still about 1/3 to go.
Fascinating concept with wonderful anecdotes, but I am not a fan of Winchester’s verbose and self-indulgent prose. The book could’ve been 100 pages shorter.
The book exhibits a grand collection of human's pursuit of precision on various scale. I especially enjoyed reading the afterwords, and came to a surprising realisation that all units of measurements (length, mass, temperature etc.) depend on time, and perfecting the accuracy of a second is yet an example of human's relentless pursuit of precision.
The book however is a big hard to read for me, with a lot of technical words and very long sentence.
The book however is a big hard to read for me, with a lot of technical words and very long sentence.
I enjoy whenever I'm presented with an idea I had never thought about but which seems obvious in hindsight and in this case I learned how much of technological progress was driven by trends in the ability to produce and measure more precisely. It seems like we're asymptotically approaching the boundary in some areas whereas in others the bounds seem less obvious, but the book covers a range of devices from early timekeeping devices to the large sensors responsible for the LIGO project detecting gravitational waves under a coherent narrative.
informative
slow-paced