"Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all," wrote Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle in 1833. He might have been influenced, in part, by watching the Victorian ...

Mastering the backhoe-loader is a big job because it is really two machines in one. A good operator can improve productivity by employing many of the same principles that make excavators and wheel ...

The push for more productivity and lower costs is behind a drive for more advanced technologies in oil-and-gas drilling activities. Rock bits are an area of particular focus where new improvements can ...