Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World audiobook runs 11.8 hours unabridged, narrated by Simon Winchester (about 7.8 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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Based on 11.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
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| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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What our data says
- At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 83% of the 1,009 Astronomy & Physics audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 179 hours in all.
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
- The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
About as long, on the Astronomy & Physics shelf
132 Astronomy & Physics audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
- The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released May 8, 2018, on the Astronomy & Physics and Biography & Memoir shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- May 8, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Astronomy & Physics, Biography & Memoir
- ISBN
- 9780008241803
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How long is the Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World audiobook?
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.8 hours.
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Who narrates Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World?
Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.8 hours, saving 3.9 hours.