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Builds, Repairs, Show Your Machines! => Machine Tools, Machining, and Toolmaking => Topic started by: Stoker on May 16, 2024, 10:00:16 am

Title: Re: A Thumbnail History of Precision
Post by: Stoker on May 19, 2024, 06:14:38 pm

Glad you liked it Frank ... I think it sort of puts some important things into perspective!

There are several other videos in that series that are also worth the watching.

Title: Re: A Thumbnail History of Precision
Post by: Weedensteam on May 16, 2024, 07:24:40 pm

Thanks Daniel, that was very informative, half hour well spent.

Title: Re: A Thumbnail History of Precision
Post by: MasonvilleEngines on May 16, 2024, 01:11:43 pm

and then youtube suggests...

https://youtu.be/Aw-xbs8ZWxE?si=YduZ0Ex2lZ23wvjM

Title: A Thumbnail History of Precision
Post by: Stoker on May 16, 2024, 10:00:16 am

Including tales of Surface Plates, Jo-Blocks and Watt's first Micrometer.

Not even close to all-inclusive, but it is interesting and entertaining with certainly at least some educational value.

https://youtu.be/gNRnrn5DE58?si=2rvMd-QicOVhpuN6