Started more than 60 years ago by California potter Edith Heath, the Sausalito-based Heath Ceramics is the go-to for choice ceramics, especially when it comes to tiles. Esteemed spots from ...

The earliest known terracotta roof postdating the Bronze Age belongs to the 7th-century B.C. Old Temple at Corinth. Analysis of the surface markings preserved on its tiles suggests a hypothesis for ...

What to do with 860 million pounds worth of cathode ray tubes? Grind them up and tile a bathroom with them. Before the invention of super-thin liquid crystal displays, if you wanted to watch ...

A NASA Space Shuttle Orbiter re-enters the Earth's atmosphere at about 75 miles above sea level and speeds close to 17,500 mph. When slowing down to its landing speed of about 215 mph, the orbiter's ...

Everyone loves the antique blue and white tiles that mark the street corners in the older sections of New Orleans. But did you ever wonder how the unique horizontal street sign system came about? If ...