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

with apologies to Ogden Nash...

Friday, November 28, 2025

Cleveland Discol gasoline

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

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Vignacourt 14-18  WW1 Australian soldier posing... I expect that is not a regulation uniform. 
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Sandcasting Greeves frame components

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Pretty labour intensive. Doesn't look like high volume production to me. Safety definitely not first but at least they're wearing gl...
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Steam-powered embroidery

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

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    Little implement wrenches like this show up all the time at antique stores, generally part of the tool kit supplied with agricultural eq...
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Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Leon Lauthier Stayer

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  In bicycle racing, Staying is an event where a bicyclist pedals in the slipstream of a pacer- a motorcycle or car- in an attempt to obtain...

Lovely little shooter

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Monday, November 24, 2025

Ariel Leader, 1958

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  Brand new in 1958, discontinued in 1965. Might have been better as a 350?
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Model airplane display

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Loc.gov  Model airplanes decorate the ceiling of the train concourses at Union Station in Chicago, Feb 1943, signifying the huge number of a...
Sunday, November 23, 2025

Welding lesson

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Jan '85 Classic Bike    The caption indicates that this a welding demonstration at the BSA factory in 1952. The Golden Flash plunger fra...
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