• Title: The Perfectionists
• Author: Simon Winchester
• Genre/Subject: Technology/Engineering history
• Publisher: Harper
• Publication Date: 2018
• Start date: 12/16/2021
• Finish date: 12/30/2021

Review:

A fascinating look inside the world of the very exact, from the super tiny to the vastly immense reaches of space.

Everything in the world relies on precision. If the ball on the pen I used to write this review originally were too big by a fraction of a millimeter I wouldn’t have been able to write this. Too small by the same fraction and ink would have gushed out.

The information was so beautifully presented, as though reading a travel journal. From the first bored out cylinder for the Watt steam engine to the billions of transistors placed on a silicon wafer.

Learned a lot, laughed a bit even. Great stuff.