A review by bu77trout
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World by Simon Winchester

challenging informative reflective relaxing slow-paced

4.25

An interesting and novel take on history: The history of precision engineering. The author talks about all the expected developments cars, airplanes, computers, but throws in a few curveballs here and there. Occasionally he starts to get into the weeds and it becomes a bit tedious for the layman but usually pulls the reader right back out with a charming story or something unexpected. It ends reflectively, neatly tying the themes together with a thread through time, from the early industrial revolution, to the present day, and into the not so distant future.