from scientific imagination to running instrument, via machine shop

An extensive article in the Ottawa Citizen today about how the NRC Machine Shop transforms scientists' ideas into working instruments:

A machine built on a scientist's dream

PS I don't know where they got "150 scientists at NRC", maybe they meant at the Sussex location?  Because while not everyone at NRC is a scientist, with a total staff around 4000 I'm sure we have several thousand scientists.

Previously:
March 7, 2006  building the most accurate clock on the planet