jegutman 's review for:

The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

5.0

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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.