Featured in machinery
May 08, 2017
At this amusement park, drive the heavy machinery you loved as a kid
Like your sandbox days, but bigger. Much, much bigger.
Aug 16, 2012
A Mechanical Road Crew for Filling Potholes Quickly and Cheaply
A quarter of America’s major metropolitan roads have stretches in substandard condition, and drivers pay the consequences—potholes alone cost car...
Jun 14, 2012
Video: The Guillotine-Like Machines That Analyze Foods’ Texture
Squishing chickens for science
Feb 14, 2012
A Tribute to the Fifty: A Nine-Story Forging Press That Can Benchpress a Battleship
At PopSci we’ve always got our eyes to the future, but every now and then we have to pause and...
Mar 02, 2011
New ‘Nanolube’ Could Cut Engine Friction by More Than Half
In any contraption with moving parts–automotive engines, industrial machines, a countertop juicer–some degree of energy is lost as heat to...
Oct 27, 2009
Gallery: Random Heavy Crap in My Shop
Moving reveals some of the stranger things I've acquired over the years