Alan Earls
Celebrating America’s Love Affair with Machining
By Alan R. Earls The American Precision Museum is headquartered in a former armory that helped perfect the manufacture of interchangeable parts. Its collections showcase two centuries of American machining [...]
Origins: Da Vinci’s Machines
By Alan Earls In this article, we look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s sketches of proto-machine tools, including lathes and screw machines, which he conceived hundreds of years before they were [...]
Origins: Da Vinci’s Machines
These days, thanks to books, movies, a Discovery Channel reality show, and innumerable global museum exhibits, that penultimate renaissance man, Leonardo Da Vinci, is among the most popular of the [...]
Origins: A Break from the Grind
Today’s Machining World Archives March 2011 Volume 07 Issue 02 By Alan Earls Today’s Machining World’s new feature, “Origins,” tells the stories of how successful technologies, companies and people got [...]
Celebrating America’s Love Affair with Machining
The American Precision Museum is headquartered in a former armory that helped perfect the manufacture of interchangeable parts. Its collections showcase two centuries of American machining ingenuity. The Beginning of [...]
Shop Doc – Tapered Out
Today’s Machining World Archives October 2008 Volume 04 Issue 10 Dear Shop Doc, We’re using a horizontal band saw with automatic feed. Until recently we were cutting 12L14 RD material [...]