Recently, an attorney told me that his eleven-year-old daughter had “discovered” gears in a science class and was excitedly learning all she could ...

  It may surprise some people that there was football before the Super Bowl. I know this because back in those dark ages we wat...

Regular unleaded gasoline prices dropped below $1.50 a gallon in the Chicago suburbs this week. That hardly seemed possible when prices peaked well...

Previous blogs here have celebrated the great advances made in gear industry design capabilities and machine tools. As the “paper of record” for th...

My first airline trip of the New Year ended like the last one of the previous year: in a middle seat of a fully loaded plane fighting a respiratory...

I am less of an airplane fan than most engineers, but the news reports of Air France scheduling special “last flights” for its retiring Boeing 747 ...

Blogging from an American perspective can sometimes make me forget that the gear industry is active around the world. I get occasional reminders in...

  Previous blogs have discussed how fortunate we are to live in an age with the very best in gear making technology. Modern gear grinding m...

The management here at Beyta Gear Service’s world headquarters has ordered a clean-up of certain storage areas. Our now adult children left quite a...

Let’s start 2016 off with a joint research project. While visiting a client late last year we got to talking gear history and he recounted a story ...