I first started using air-powered pneumatic tools nearly 40 years ago while working as a custom cabinetmaker and remodeling contractor. At that time, air compressors were behemoths: large, loud, and ...

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