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

  The idea was less pinching of the bar, but it doesn't seem safety was much of a factor.   History of bow saws here  with safety notes,...

Long after the Wright brothers achieved powered flight in 1903, they continued playing with gliders. Here in a 1911 test, things get a bit o...

  Nice little car, designed by Pininfarina in 1966, who after Fiat discontinued it in 1982, took up manufacturing it under their own name.  ...

  One of the good thing about old cast iron is that it seems like every time someone made a casting they used it as an excuse to cover it in...

   This would probably be an adjustable go no-go gauge made for some specific job in a production environment. Taft-Peirce started out makin...

This is a nice rare piece, a friction-powered tin toy made in China back in the eighties.  

Interesting that these WW2-era things still appear in antique shops.      These practice bombs were made of cast iron and were used for low ...

Vintage machinery

   Jet fighter, aircraft carriers, rockets! What more could a boy desire? This classic British boys' adventure publication,  a staple fo...