Tang Shigang is a painter with a passion for antique machinery. The 53-year-old has spent more than two decades collecting 36 large machine tools dating from the 19th century through to the 1930s.

Whether you have inherited an old sewing machine or picked one up at the local thrift shop, it's totally normal to be curious about its value. Antique Singer sewing machine values are determined by ...

John Pawleski likes to think of the Connecticut Antique Machinery Association’s sprawling museum grounds a mile north of Kent Center as sort of a “Sturbridge Village of industrial history.” And, ...