List of Illustrations

Unless otherwise noted, all images are in the public domain.

Difference between Accuracy and Precision

John Wilkinson

Boulton and Watt steam engine

Joseph Bramah

Henry Maudslay

Maudslay’s “Lord Chancellor” bench micrometer (courtesy of the Science Museum Group Collection)

Flintlock on a rifle

Thomas Jefferson

Springfield Armory “organ of muskets”

Joseph Whitworth

Crystal Palace

Whitworth screws (courtesy of Christoph Roser at AllAboutLean.com)

“Unpickable” Bramah lock

Henry Royce

Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost (courtesy of Malcolm Asquith)

Ford Model T

Ford Model T (exploded)

Henry Ford

Ford assembly line

Box of gauge blocks

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)

Rolls-Royce Trent engine

Qantas Flight 32 failed stub pipe diagram (courtesy of Australian Transport Safety Bureau)

Early Leica camera

Leica IIIcs

Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble mirror being polished

Null corrector

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)

Bradford Parkinson

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)