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

East Germany,  1966

Involuntary winces all round...  

  Made by the Louis Marx toy company, this was a wind-up toy that made machine gun noises. Just the thing for a depression era boy.

    The handle turns on a double ended thread, moving the two ends further apart- to stretch that hat you rashly bought without trying on fi...

  More do-it-yourself lead sinkers. Apparently everyone was making fishing equipment at home in their spare time.

  Here’s a 5/8- 19/32” wrench made in the USA  by Hinsdale Mfg. Markings are all on one side.   The company was started in -919 by Fred W. M...

  The Tarzon was a development of the 6 ton British Tallboy bomb, enhanced with the Guidance system from the earlier Razon guided bomb. It s...

      This was a tool designed as an aid to assist first responders in extricating victims of a car accident. The blade was intended to punc...

  This is the Florence Sturdivant Public Library in East Machias, Maine, named for the benefactor who donated thousands of books and money t...