Culver vs Conserve School

“Imagine…” reads the white lettering over the bucolic green, leafy cover of the Conserve School brochure. “The Dream… The School… The Future…” Each set of ellipses in this case means [...]

Engineers Toy with Real Model Trains

Charlie Smith weaves his Big Joe forklift through his warren of machinery as if he were the Pac-Man of an old video game. The machines are relatively of that era—Van [...]

Model train display.  Photo courtesy of Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, Ill

Engineers Toy with Real Model Trains

By Robert Strauss Today’s Machining World Archives May 2011 Volume 07 Issue 04 Charlie Smith weaves his Big Joe forklift through his warren of machinery as if he were the [...]

Machining for the Stars

Michael Tait threads his pinky through a loop of fabric on the side of a piece of the stage for Bon Jovi’s “The Circle World Tour.” It’s one of more [...]