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

Three stamped pieces of maybe .080" or .100" thick steel, a coupla rivets and we have a simple and effective oil filter wrench, th...

    An illustration for the artisan sardine cannery  La Quiberonnaise , by comic book artist Frank Margerin.

 Sealing wax for sealing lids while canning fruits and vegetables, when that was a normal part of life, not sure where the seemingly exotic ...

Thanks, Arthur!   British manufacturer Peter Wright was known for their innovative solid-screwbox post/leg vises for blacksmith use.  Up to ...

    The industrial production of aluminum was made possible by the invention of the electrolytic aluminum process in 1886. Aluminum had been...

   Gay as a gypsy, manufactured by Hodson Berg of Fifth Avenue. Probably didn't catch on, no definitive images online that I could find,...

Electrically assisted brakes for your postwar Harley or Indian.

  Pau is located in the southwest corner of France. The 110-lap race was won by Maserati driver Juan Manuel Fangio after starting from pole ...

 

 Steam tug Pioneer among the squareriggers it guided to moorings at Port Gamble lumber mills in Puget Sound. Makes me wonder, how did these ...