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0 pointsWillAdams1y ago0 comments

Simon Winchester did a book on this:

_The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World_

(alternately title _Exactly_)

https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/56364115-the-perfect...

and for further technical details see:

_Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy_ by Wayne R. Moore

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262130806/foundations-of-mechan...

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bsder1y ago· 2 in thread

Please don't recommend "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" without also providing a source. The prices people want for it are absurd if it is even available.

WillAdamsOP1y ago

Interlibrary loan through your local library?

See:

https://mooretool.com/about-us/publications/

for a form to request it.

WillAdamsOP1y ago

Got a response back from Moore Tool Co.

$250 per copy, plus $20 S/H.

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