SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018 Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs boson.
Pioneering developers of precision engineering as we know it today including John 'Iron-Mad' Wilkinson who contributed perfectly round cylinders to the industrial revolution and mastermind of the beer tap and hydraulic press Joseph Bramah are given the biographical treatment here, by the author of "The Map That Changed The World".
