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

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...

These combination anvil vises are more common than I thought.  

  In 1880 Joseph Ravel,  a French engineer and inventor, built and patented this acetylene-powered two-stroke engine.  Patent 236,258.   The...

  Ad from 1967, a groovy cool couple on a Bantam.  The bike had been part of the BSA lineup since 1948, from a 1930s DKW design first sold i...

Shouldn't be sitting outside....  

 Do guys still shave wherever they are?