Many tools, from ones for carpentry to household chores, have fallen out of favor to more modern alternatives. Or, they're ...

Everyday vintage tools once seen as ordinary now fetch strong prices from collectors. Some pieces hiding in garages are ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." From rare 19th-century leather working tools to mid-century woodworking handplanes, these finds tell the ...

Albert Dremel developed the now famous rotary tool and started the company in 1932 to make blade sharpeners. It would be 1935 before the company produced the Moto-Tool which is mostly recognizable as ...

You know that dusty toolbox in the corner of the garage? The one that hasn’t been opened since the Reagan administration? It might be hiding more than a few rusted screws—some vintage tools are ...

They sure don’t make tools like this anymore, you muse as you turn the old jack plane in your hands. Thousands of planing passes have smoothed its wooden sole. Years of grime obscure the wood’s ...

In Art Yager’s thinking, there’s no tool like an old tool. And he should know. He’s 86, and he’s been enthralled with tools since he was a boy helping his father, a carpenter. Like other collectors of ...

Today I want to visit with you about a conversation we had with fellow docents. They shared with us that one of their friends visited the museum and was quite disappointed because all it had in it was ...

Ancient tools, buried for millions of years in Kenya, may be the oldest example yet of our ancestors’ technological prowess. The tools, recently discvered on the Homa Peninsula in Lake Victoria, are ...