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

 

The Teach Yourself books  A E Peatfield,  Engineering Components and Materials. The English Engineering Press, 1951  Still around today... ...

1948  Care and lubrication here.   History of Baldwin Duckworth here .

Cyclopedia of Modern Shop Practice , American Technical Society, Vol 1, 1903  The mystery of vise mechanisms revealed! No one could have kno...

Junior Language Book B by Donalda Dickie, 1938  But hadn't we already eliminated Zeppelins a few years earlier?

Artist; Vic Berris   The Offy 4 cylinder racing engine was designed in the twenties by Fred Offenhauser and Harry Miller of Miller Racing a...

 Domtar (Dominion Tar and Chemical Co.) is a large paper and forestry product company that was in the brick business through most of the 20t...

    I found reference to this oddball in an old book, the internet sent me to this blog,  Project Tempo .  It's a three wheel delivery t...

  Briggs Cunningham in the C-4R at LeMans in 1954. The car was built in 1952 for use at LeMans and was retired in 1956, its best result was...

  Cincinnati Universal cutter and tool grinder. Just the thing for a machine shop that needs a full time dedicated tool sharpener. Not sure ...