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

 

 I found this picture of a Constellation with radomes in an old Popular Electronics magazine, figured it must have been an artist's rend...

The message is clear, nerds run lathes but cool, tough guys run mills. John Feirer and Earl Tetro,  Machine Tool Metalworking , McGraw-Hill,...

  In 1954 California speed shop owner Roy Richter came up with a new design of  motorsports safety helmet,  utilizing the new fiberglass mol...

The Classic Motor Cycle,  April 1986

But did those fins need accentuating?  

 Here's an interesting speed handle made by a Canadian company famously known as the only manufacturer of wrenches and hand tools in Can...

Says easy to own, but in 1938, minimum wage in the US was 25¢ an hour and the average hourly wage was 55¢ an hour. I expect not many of thes...

 From a book on general technology as it looked in 1986. Wow that's 40 years ago! Ford had just purchased New Holland. The Ford-New Holl...

  A nice cutaway of the inline twin said to be inspired by the prewar BMW twins...  Mr Fooks was an British motoring artist who turned out d...