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

   Here's a minor little sharpening stone, sent to me a reader in New Jersey (thanks, Jay!). He said he had found this promotional item ...

 Found on dozens of Tumblrs and below, on Googlemaps in July 2023.

 

 Hard to believe this thing is 40 years old, knocked us all for a loop when it was released. Missing some fairing pieces, but surprisingly c...

   Tetraethyl lead was introduced into gasoline as an antiknock additive in the 1920s, it made possible high compression engines, greatly im...

Vignacourt 14-18  WW1 Australian soldier posing... I expect that is not a regulation uniform. 

Pretty labour intensive. Doesn't look like high volume production to me. Safety definitely not first but at least they're wearing gl...

Those inventive Americans , National Geographic Magazine, 1971  At a county fair in the 1970, a small steam engine is driving a sewing machi...

    Little implement wrenches like this show up all the time at antique stores, generally part of the tool kit supplied with agricultural eq...