Eli5 How was the first industrial machine made without the precision of machinery?

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How do you make a machine that has perfectly flat/plumb/level metal components without the aide of a machine to begin with?

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Bootstrapping. It is possible to make a decent stone hammer with a marginal one. Same with a lathe.

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