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

Datamp.org  I happened upon this surprisingly modern angular-style bicycle wrench at Datamp.org, a far cry from the usual wrenches of the da...

  Jones & Lamson grew out of the gun-manufacturing company  Robbins & Lawrence . Jones & Lamson was formed in 1869 and continued...

Boatswain, Royal Canadian Navy, Trade Group One, 1960  

  Rather an unusually styled car with 50s styling and a radically lowered roofline, making it a tough-looking ride. The Rover P5 was introdu...

   Interesting and very abused Rock Island Manufacturing anvil/vise. It looks like there is a quick adjust feature, in that the screw block ...

Sandblast and save gas!  

  Posted only because this is another picture of the rare fat-tired RV90... Oh, the actress who is blocking the view is Uschi Obermaier.

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 ...