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Difference between Accuracy and Precision
Maudslay’s “Lord Chancellor” bench micrometer (courtesy of the Science Museum Group Collection)
Springfield Armory “organ of muskets”
Whitworth screws (courtesy of Christoph Roser at AllAboutLean.com)
Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (courtesy of Malcolm Asquith)
Qantas Flight 32 (2010 incident) (courtesy of Australian Transport Safety Bureau)
Frank Whittle (courtesy of University of Cambridge)
Turbine blades (courtesy of Michael Pätzold/Creative Commons BY-SA-3.0 de)
Qantas Flight 32 failed stub pipe diagram (courtesy of Australian Transport Safety Bureau)
Jim Crocker (courtesy of NG Images)
Roger Easton (courtesy of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory)
Transit-system satellite (courtesy of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution)
Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado (courtesy of Schriever Air Force Base, U.S. Air Force)
Ops room of Second Space Operations Squadron
ASML EUV photolithography machine (courtesy of ASML)
Gordon Moore (courtesy of Intel Free Press)
John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain
First Bell Labs transistor (courtesy of Windell H. Oskay, www.evilmadscientist.com)
Chart showing progress from Intel 4004 to Skylake (courtesy of Max Roser/Creative Commons BY-SA-2.0)
Main mirror for James Webb Space Telescope
Aerial view of LIGO Hanford Observatory
LIGO test mass (courtesy of Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab)
Seiko Building with clock in Ginza (courtesy of Oleksiy Maksymenko Photography)
Quartz watch (courtesy of Museumsfoto/Creative Commons BY-SA-3.0 de)
Makers of Grand Seiko mechanical watch
Bamboo creation from Met exhibit (courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Example of fine urushi work (courtesy of the Japan Folk-Craft Museum)