GMAT Tip of the Week: Standardized Parts
Posted on on February 5, 2010
What do Eli Whitney and Honore le Blanc have in common? And what does their commonality have to do with your impending GMAT exam?
Le Blanc is widely credited with having invented the concept of standardized parts in manufacturing. A gunsmith in the 1700s, his idea was to standardize each component of a gun, so that when one part broke, it could easily be replaced by another instead of needing to be individually repaired by a blacksmith or replaced by another gun entirely.
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