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

informative medium-paced

4.0

Simon Winchester has a gift for writing books about my niche, weird obsessions, and this is one of them. The book explores the history of the concepts of precision and accuracy, ideals that did not really exist before the Industrial Revolution, mass production, capitalism, and ubiquitous technology, but they now define the world we live in and how most people understand it.