The perfectionists : how precision engineers created the modern world
(Book on CD)

Compact discs.

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Eventually, the application of precision tools and methods resulted in the creation and mass production of items from guns and glass to mirrors, lenses, and cameras, and eventually gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips, and the Hadron Collider. Simon Winchester takes listeners back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production.