On November 1, 1939, prominent figures of New York City including Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia and David Sarnoff, President of the Radio Corporation of America, along with 300 spectators, crowded into the ...

When we get ready to tackle a project, the first thing we consider is what will be used to hold everything together - nails, screws or nuts and bolts. Will we need a hammer, screwdriver or socket ...

"There are no ordinary lives," Ken Burns said of those who served in a global cataclysm so momentous that the filmmaker titled his 2007 documentary simply "The War." Many who served in so many ...

Although magnesium is known for being lightweight, riveting pieces of it together can be an involved, energy-intensive process. A new technique is claimed to make doing so much simpler, possibly ...

Guys who work with sheet metal love “pop” rivets because they quickly and easily fasten together pieces of sheet metal. Because much of my rivet work is with heavier metal or thicker plastic, my ...