Progress is fine, but it's gone on for too long.

Barber Museum

The Book of Knowledge.  The Children's Encyclopedia.  Vol 17.   Toronto:  The Grolier Society, Ltd., 1945.

The Children's Book of Achievement , 1958. Ah, the unbridled technological optimism of the Fifties!   If British industry only kne...

June 12 1942. Mission. To drop French flags on the Champs-Élysées for Bastille Day. Painting by Mark Postlethwaite. www.posart.com Sc...

Canadian Pacific was the only line in North America to use the 4-4-4 wheel arrangement. They were generally used for light fast passenger a...

This tool was clearly designed to be held in a hand brace, although the tapered, 4-cornered shank has been rather expertly rounded off b...

The New Book of Knowledge .  NY:  Grolier Inc., 1979.

  In my opinion one of the most graphic views of a flat tracker at speed and it defines the essence of dirt track racing. I don...

National Geographic.  February 1927 Youth entertainment before the internet.   Sooee!

For a wonderfully mathematical approach to this old problem, see Leibniz, the I Ching and the Omnibombulator .