Simon Winchester | The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
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English - July 10, 2018 11:55 - 1 hour - 34.2 MB - ★★★★ - 106 ratingsSociety & Culture Education free library author lectures books Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Celebrated by critics and readers alike for ''interweaving history, fascinating trivia and acute observation'' (New York Times Book Review), Simon Winchester is the bestselling author of the nonfiction books The Professor and the Madman, Krakatoa, The Men Who United the States, Atlantic, and Pacific. Formerly an Oxford-trained field geologist in Uganda and a war correspondent for The Guardian and The Sunday Times, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2006. Stretching from the dawn of the Industrial Age to the bleeding edge tech of tomorrow, The Perfectionists tells the story of the engineers and instruments that gave birth to modern manufacturing.
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(recorded 5/9/2018)