When Marie Leibensperger voted in her 51st election on Nov. 7, just as she did in the previous 50 elections, she used an 800-pound, battleship-colored mechanical-lever machine. An Allentown ...

During his research, he found most machines were created using electrical parts so he decided to challenge himself by building a purely mechanical Turing machine. Unlike the machine Alan Turing ...

“It’s kind of a holy grail machine for me,” says Glusker, a mechanical engineer and collector of early calculators (he has about 100). “When you’d read the specifications, you’d think, ‘That’s just ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Computer vision researchers use machine learning to train computers in visually recognizing objects – but very few apply machine learning to mechanical parts such as gearboxes, ...

What kinds of machines are in use across the U.S. today? We’ve gotten rid of the punch card and mechanical lever voting machines. Those are now not so ancient history. What we’re left with are ...