- Author
- Beck, Herbert Huebener,
- Date of Publication
- 1950
) in a statement (now at the home of
Thomas William Henry Stites, Boulton, Pa.) says that as a 13-year-old boy
(in 1771) he saw his father's experiments with and the development of this
auger. The first one was made of lead, which his father bored into a turnip.
The next one, iron, threw the chips out