A small copper tool found in a museum drawer is now confirmed as the oldest rotary metal drill in ancient Egypt, dating back 5,300 years.

The artifact comes from a Predynastic cemetery at Badari in Upper Egypt, specifically Grave 3932 (an adult male burial). It measures about 63 mm long and weighs roughly 1.5 grams, so small it was easy ...

"Egyptian craftspeople mastered reliable rotary drilling more than two millennia before some of the best-preserved drill sets." ...

A new study reveals that Egyptians were using a mechanically sophisticated drilling tool far earlier than previously ...

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A Buffalo man who walked into two local hardware stores with a length of galvanized steel pipe and asked if the stores sold “fuses” has been arrested ...

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The word transfer comes from the Latin transferre, meaning to carry ("ferre") across ("trans"). In fabrication, we not only transfer bolt holes, but we also carry our existing knowledge—conceptual and ...

"Not too heavy, big, or bulky." ...

“It’s sure to last a long time.” ...