A documentary on precision milling and boring machines. Opens by telling us the story of how a group of people created the “Societe Genevoise D’Instruments de Physique”, a society formed to create a way to measure using unit measurements. We then travel into the future to see how the dividing machines they originally created are working now.
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Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
314524
Language
English
Subject categories
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Creativity ability in science
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Discoveries (in science)
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Measuring instruments
Mathematics, Science & Technology → Scientific apparatus and instruments
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)