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May 30

A Transmission Hypothesis for the French Precision Revolution and Its American Transformation

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May 30Edited

Oh man, if you haven't read "The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World" by Simon Winchester, you really should.

Yep, I’ve read it

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