| 2006: The Cutting Edge |
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Page 1 of 5  The Cutting Edge: Machines that Shape our World. From airplane parts to shopping carts, from computer chips to paper clips, our modern consumer culture is driven by the mass production of interchangeable parts.
The tiny steel screws that hold together your digital camera can be replaced with any other screw of the same size and type, made anywhere in the world. Ultimately, all of this interchangeability is made possible by machine tools: the power-driven machines that make parts to the most precise standards. Interchangeable Parts: parts made to such tolerances that they can be freely substituted for one another and still be fully functional. |
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