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Interchangeable Parts: The Manufacturing Revolution That Rewrote Warfare

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The story most people know about interchangeable parts credits Eli Whitney, and it's wrong. That matters because the actual history has real lessons for anyone who thinks about manufacturing, quality control, or why your AR parts swap between lowers without a file. Whitney had been careful not to disassemble the complex locks — he only swapped the locks between wooden gun stocks, a much looser tolerance operation — and used only ten gun stocks that had been specially adjusted to accept all t...

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Interchangeable Parts: The Manufacturing Revolution That Rewrote Warfare

For most of firearms history, every gun was essentially a one-of-a-kind object. A skilled craftsman built it by hand, fitting each part to every other part through a process of careful filing and adjustment. If a lock broke in the field, you didn't s

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