Sep 17, 2020
In this podcast from the memoir of
Ellsworth S Grant, one of the state's great historians, Walt
Woodward tells us about the invention of the world's best fastening
device. It's a story that begins with Archimedes, and that came to
fruition because of silk worms, Cornelius Vanderbilt, an
entrepreneur named Dimoch, and an Irish inventor who gave this
unique tool its name. It's a story for anyone who ever put together
a piece of Ikea furniture - the story of the recessed hexagonal
screw and the Allen wrench