Spring is nearly officially here, and if the changing of the season has you ready to give your living room a little zhuzhing, ...

Those a rung further up the social scale could perhaps afford a silver box or a plated brass novelty. The wealthy would carry a box fashioned in silver, enamel or gold by Gorham and Tiffany in New ...

Gears were initially used in simple mechanical devices like water-lifting machines and clocks. The Antikythera ... from wood and stone to metals such as brass, steel, and aluminum.