Since the mid-1600s, humans have been playing with the idea of compressing air and putting it to work. By the late 1800s, air ...

Cordless portable air compressors, such as the Milwaukee M18, use a rechargeable, 18-volt, lithium-ion battery and provide ...

One U.S. manufacturer, Ingersoll-Rand, was sufficiently impressed to start producing a similar line of quiet compressors (from $30 to $4,500 more expensive than the unmuffled varieties).

For instance, when the dialogues in the movies are quiet and low in volume, the action scenes could be seemingly LOUD or inaudible. The Compressor Tool in VLC Media Player offers a solution to ...