Faced with the prospect of turning away business, Joe O’Connell went looking for a bigger space for his growing company, sculpture and museum-exhibit maker Creative Machines. Thanks to good timing and ...

A challenge to use five simple machines to turn an easy task into a more complicated process resulted in a a top prize for six Albany High School students. Students started the simple machine by ...

Creative Machines is a mixture of three seemingly incongruous ingredients — art, science and business. Owner Joe O'Connell is the chef who has blended art and science profitably, for most of the ...