Two days before Christmas Eve, Jack Giambanco was trying to finish his last customer order of the season — a miniature model of a local business twice the size of his usual pieces, which measure about ...

Nicolas Temese didn't use 3D printing. He built the entire model of the 1401 computer system from scratch, including teeny tiny punchcards. CNET editor Gael Fashingbauer Cooper, a journalist and ...

Over the summer last year I took my daughters out to Bong State Recreation Area in Wisconsin. The massive park offers miles and miles of walking and riding trails, large camping areas, a place to ride ...

Miniature Wonderland in Hamburg, Germany, is the world's largest railway model theme park, and is known for reproducing not only the railway but also the scenery of the world on the HO scale (1/87 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Model villages have been delighting visitors for decades with their detailed replicas of the world's greatest landmarks. We've ...

From 1790 until 1870, U.S. patent law required inventors to submit actual physical models of their novel machines along with their drawings and descriptions. These miniature testaments to innovation — ...