Makes custom pewter gifts
Kyle Gerckin, head of the caster department at Wendell August: American Made Gifts in Grove City, PA shows how to pour pewter into a custom-made [Read More…]
Category: TECHNOLOGY
New composting toilets at Andorra
Elizabeth Fink has been using the new composting toilets near the Wissahickon Environmental Center (formerly Andorra Tree House) at the northwestern edge of Fairmount Park, [Read More…]
Car body shop manager talks shop
Your correspondent took his wife’s car to Dr. Ralph’s Automotive Services Center in Roxborough after she discovered one morning that it had been bashed overnight. [Read More…]
Money never sleeps: mining litecoins in basement
A father and son "mine" bitcoins and litecoins 24/7 in their unfinished Chestnut Hill basement. These "coins," son explains, are virtual currencies not under the [Read More…]
How Lego conquered the toy industry brick by brick
The Lego Company has been fantastically successful. In each of the last 5 years sales have risen 24% and profits, 40%. But it was not [Read More…]
Accompanies WC Fields silent film with digital Wurlitzer
Moviegoers attending the Chestnut Hill Film Group’s inaugural screening of the season this Tuesday evening were delighted by the artful musical accompaniment of veteran [Read More…]
GO MO MATH – Math Museum of NYC
We arrived at the Museum of Math one hour before closing on a Saturday in late summer and zipped through it. The exhibits deserved more [Read More…]
Night geocaching at Andorra Natural Area
Scenes from the video featuring Wen-Young and his son Manny of Plymouth Meeting, PA. “That’s what we’re looking for- the waypoints” “It’ll say the gecoache [Read More…]
Herr’s potato chip factory tour
The story goes that in 1853, a restaurant patron at a New York resort who complained of a soggy french fry gave rise to the [Read More…]
Installing the new RF smart electric meter
PECO is replacing the existing electric meters in the neighborhood with new remote controlled smart meters using Radio Frequency (RF) transmission. Installer Peter Paige stopped [Read More…]