Publisher's Synopsis
The development of the manufacturing industry cannot exist without attention to precision. At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution in eighteenth-century England, standards of measurement were established, giving way to the development of machine tools - machines that made machines. Ultimately, the application of precise tools and methods led to the creation and mass production of items from guns and glassware to mirrors, lenses and cameras - which, in the end, gave way to further breakthroughs, including gene splicing, microchips and the Hadron Collider.
