Precision
Screws and aiming devices, invented by Christopher Polhem, were introduced and used to aim and adjust the elevation of the pipe.
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Famous quotes containing the word precision:
“Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“How should the world be luckier if this house,
Where passion and precision have been one
Time out of mind, became too ruinous
To breed the lidless eye that loves the sun?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)