At the National Museum of American History one day last July, an upright piano stood on a stage. Beside it, on a wooden pallet, was a strange metal contraption about five feet high. The Ring King Jr., ...

Tiffany Jaynes Black asked me this silly question while guiding dozens of miniature doughnuts through an automatic doughnut-making machine. The Rube Goldberg-like contraption can make up to 1,200 ...

In 1969, I was “The Doughnut King” in Sidney. My father bought a doughnut-making machine, and his market was the first one in the village to make its own doughnuts (of course bakeries and coffee shops ...