Unique

The whole thing hangs on one number

A history of engineering whose chapters are labelled with the accuracy they describe, tightening by factors of a thousand; a worldtimer whose outer ring clicks exactly fifteen degrees and locks; a grinder with sixty-plus settings and a catch sized to a single dose; a business card that harvests precisely enough energy off a passing phone to light twenty-one LEDs, and not a joule more.

Exactly

A history of engineering told in orders of magnitude

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