Richard Plaud's matchstick dreams have been rekindled. Earlier this week, the Frenchman was crestfallen when he was told his 23-foot model of the Eiffel Tower — made from 700,000 matchsticks over ...

Richard Plaud labored 4,200 hours over eight years to painstakingly transform more than 700,000 matchsticks into a 23½-foot-tall model of the Eiffel Tower, driven by a goal he had held since he was a ...

During the construction of the International Space Station (ISS), material selection was critical given the extreme environment of space. Chances are that one of those materials up for consideration ...

It all started when vocational counselor Patrick Acton glued two wooden matchsticks together in the basement of his Gladbrook, Iowa, home. Some four decades and nearly 6 million matchsticks later, ...

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What do you get when you combine 282,000 wood matchsticks, eight gallons of wood glue and 1,950 hours of production time? For Iowa artist Patrick Acton the answer is an incredible 1/26 scale, museum ...

It’s 10 a.m. in Gladbrook, Iowa, and down in the workshop in his basement, Pat Acton is doing what he does almost every morning: picking up matchsticks and gluing them together, one at a time. And ...

GLADBROOK, Iowa (AP) - “Some people refer to me as an artist, but I consider myself a woodworker.” Patrick Acton may have one of the most tedious artistic hobbies on record. Since 1977, he has created ...

Good morning. I'm Steve Inskeep. A Frenchman spent eight years building a giant matchstick model of the Eiffel Tower, and he may have used the wrong matchsticks to set a world record. Richard Plaud ...

Pat Acton, a former career counselor in central Iowa, spent some 1,000 hours a year between 2007 and 2010 building a matchstick model of the mythic Minas Tirith city from "Lord of the Rings." The ...