Today, rifles are made with exacting precision ... With the help of a primitive hand-cranked lathe, the barrel is then bored out and eventually rifled with the help of a cutting tool that is ...

When the force of the powder gases pushing behind the bullet is taken into consideration, when the fact that modern rifle barrels are made of the toughest steel is considered and when the relative ...

I admired my late father’s skills as a tinsmith. I was amazed at what he could do with sheet metal, aluminum and copper. I took a different path, but in my teens, I was his “helper” in his sheet ...

KURE, Hiroshima Prefecture--A massive lathe used to precision shape the main gun barrels of Japan’s mighty World War II battleship Yamato is now on public display at the Kure Maritime Museum here.