| ISBN |
006284590X (large print ; softcover)
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| ISBN13桁 |
9780062845900 (large print ; softcover)
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| テキストの言語 |
英語
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| 分類：NDC10版 |
502
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| 個人著者標目 |
Winchester, Simon.
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| 本タイトル |
The perfectionists :
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| タイトル関連情報 |
how precision engineers created the modern world /
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| 著者名 |
Simon Winchester.
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| 版表示 |
First HarperLuxe [large print] edition.
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| 出版地・頒布地 |
New York, NY :
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| 出版者・頒布者名 |
HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
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| 出版年・頒布年 |
[2018],
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| 数量 |
xiv, 576 pages (large print) :
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| 他の形態的事項 |
illustrations ;
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| 大きさ |
23 cm.
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| 書誌注記 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [563]-576).
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| 内容注記 |
Stars, seconds, cylinders, and steam -- Extremely flat and incredibly close -- A gun in every home, a clock in every cabin -- On the verge of a more perfect world -- The irresistible lure of the highway -- Precision and peril, six miles high -- Through a looking glass, distinctly -- Where am I, and what is the time? -- Squeezing beyond boundaries -- On the necessity for equipoise -- The measure of all things.
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| 要約、抄録、注釈等 |
The revered New York Times bestselling author traces the development of technology from the Industrial Age to the Digital Age to explore the single component crucial to advancement - precision - in a superb history that is both an homage and a warning for our future. 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 make machines. 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 us back to origins of the Industrial Age, to England where he introduces the scientific minds that helped usher in modern production: John Wilkinson, Henry Maudslay, Joseph Bramah, Jesse Ramsden, and Joseph Whitworth. It was Thomas Jefferson who later exported their discoveries to the fledgling United States, setting the nation on its course to become a manufacturing titan. Winchester moves forward through time, to today's cutting-edge developments occurring around the world, from America to Western Europe to Asia. As he introduces the minds and methods that have changed the modern world, Winchester explores fundamental questions. Why is precision important? What are the different tools we use to measure it? Who has invented and perfected it? Has the pursuit of the ultra-precise in so many facets of human life blinded us to other things of equal value, such as an appreciation for the age-old traditions of craftsmanship, art, and high culture? Are we missing something that reflects the world as it is, rather than the world as we think we would wish it to be? And can the precise and the natural co-exist in society?
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| 一般件名 |
Engineering -- History.
Technological innovations -- History. |
| 資料情報1 |
『The perfectionists :
how precision engineers created the modern world /』First HarperLuxe [large print] edition. Simon Winchester. HarperLuxe, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2018],
（所蔵館：中央
請求記号：F/502.0/W75/P
資料コード：7113384930）
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| URL |
https://catalog.library.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/winj/opac/switch-detail.do?lang=ja&bibid=1352043742 |
