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You may want to change the Eli Whitney reference. While he claimed interchangeability (as did Samuel Colt, Cyrus McCormick and Isaac Singer), he never delivered and eventually gave up. The claim was made as a distraction to investors because of financial problems with the cotton gin. The first true mass-produced interchangeable parts were actually delivered by John Hall.

Regarding the prior claims, modern scholars David Hounshell and Merritt Roe Smith gathered samples of the same model products, disassembled them and tried to interchange the parts without success.
 

Randy

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Did you mean the origin of calibration?
Pretty close, my traceability isn't that far back Https://www.historyofquality.com/
 

Bev D

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Often overlooked but very influential: Leonard Seder and Jack Youden
 

Bev D

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It woul help if we knew the purpose of the document…there are several things *I* would add but I dont know your audience
 
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