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THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 3

By Fenella Brightwood · 4 parts · 14 h 19 min · English

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Peterborough, Manchester, Derby, Burbank: 1878 to 1975. Henry Royce learned to draw in a railway works and spent fifty years insisting that a machine is decided on paper before it is decided anywhere else. Kelly Johnson learned the same trade in a university wind tunnel and ran an American aircraft company's design office on the same principle, at ten times the speed. Between them lies the thing neither could delegate: a line on a sheet, a tolerance written beside it, and a man in a shop who must make metal agree. This is an account of what a drawing could specify before computation, what it could not, and who paid for the difference. Covers Henry Royce, Kelly Johnson, Rolls-Royce, and Lockheed.

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  1. Part 01

    3:26:20

  2. Part 02

    3:50:19

  3. Part 03

    3:18:41

  4. Part 04

    3:43:50

Books in this series

  1. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 1

    4 parts · 15 h 5 min

  2. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 2

    4 parts · 16 h 58 min

  3. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 3

    4 parts · 14 h 19 min

  4. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 4

    4 parts · 14 h 37 min

  5. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 5

    4 parts · 15 h 53 min

  6. THE DRAWN OBJECT Book 6

    4 parts · 13 h 27 min