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

    One of the first rotary gas engines, designed by Fay Oliver Farwell in 1896. The year before, he had joined joined the Adams Company of ...

    In the comments on post on the Gouldcar a few days ago, there were people lamenting the demise of  jodphurs- sorry, jodhpurs as a fash...

  A reader in New Zealand sent me these images of a Henry Boker tap and die set probably dating to the early 20th century. Oddly, it has the...

  Here's a little pressed steel ratchet wrench, fortunately with the patent number  (2507455) stamped in so I discovered that it dates ...

  Here's an interesting concept for a two stroke. The typical ported cylinder has a step at the bottom, bored to a larger diameter.  The...

  Burt bought this Indian in 1920, in 1926 it was clocked at 54 mph (with a following wind)  Not fast enough for him, he started modifying i...

  Enterprise Foundry was founded in San Francisco in 1885 to make large castings for heavy machinery, mostly for the gold rush. The company ...

 Displayed at a local antique market, this intriguingly shaped thing wasn't identified. It's all metal and about 3 feet in diameter....

Cyril Donaldson and George LeCain, Tool Design, Second edition , McGraw Hill, 1957  Hard to believe that the process can start with a simple...

 This looks like an air intake of sorts, about 3 feet wide and maybe 42 inches tall. Ideas? Best thing is there's more than one!