The Whitworth layer
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In the 1840s, Manchester, England did not suffer from a lack of invention. It suffered from too much of it.
Workshops across the city were turning out bolts, gears, shafts, couplings, each shop proud of its precision, each machinist confident in his own measurements. Steam engines multiplied. Railways stretched outward. Industry roared. And yet, beneath …
