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

  U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a 1914 Rauch and Lang Electric during the 1952 campaign The car was owned by his mother-in-law, Mrs...

Although the Nickel Iron battery had been invented, patented and abandoned in Europe in the 19th century, Edison developed the technology an...

Tools and their uses, Prepared by the US Navy (Bureau of Naval Personnel)  

After WW2 Italy was getting mobile again and the Vespa motor scooter produced by Piaggio was selling well. Moto Guzzi responded with the Gal...

 A magazine documenting the stripping of timber from Canada, the cover romanticizes the probably not workplace-safety-approved practise of l...

Illustration, possibly from a magazine of the time, by unknown artist, W. Eager, dated 1933  

 

 Seen at the Davenport Swapmeet a few years ago.

images courtesy of  J. Campbell George Hancock was one of many knife makers in the Sheffield area, which has been a leading iron and steel p...

The American Heritage History of Flight,  Simon and Shuster. 1962 Pitcairn Autogyros fly over Manhattan to study the affect of wind currents...