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In the mid-1960s, a popular science fiction movie called Fantastic Voyage portrayed the exploits of a group of scientists who traveled through a human body in a miniature submarine. Hollywood is often wrong in its portrayal of the future, but part of that fiction has become reality.

Incandescent light bulbs have been used to illuminate homes, offices, schools and factories ever since Thomas Edison developed the technology more than 120 years ago.

What do colorful cell phones and the latest generation of handheld personal organizers have in common?

At M&M Aerospace Hardware Inc. (Miami), quality counts.

I never did care much for the Army’s old recruiting slogan: "Be all that you can be."

In the first of our three-part series on pneumatic cylinders, we reviewed various cylinder types.

Panoz Auto Development Co. (Hoschton, GA) considers itself to be a renegade company that marches to a different drummer.

The benefits of epoxy have long been known throughout the boat building industry, particularly for medium- and large-sized hulls.

If you buy a lottery ticket in the United States, chances are it will be issued by a machine built by GTECH Corp. (West Greenwich, RI).

Before Steve Darmanin of Flextronics International (Palm Harbor, FL) reorganized workspaces in his production facility, visitors might have seen soldering irons piled on spools of solder, or a collage of cords, power strips, tweezers, pliers and rolls of labels peeking through transparent electrostatic dissipative packaging bags.