The Wrench that Changed America

Written By Sam Seidel

It is hard to imagine a tool lasting 150 years basically unchanged, but that's exactly what Boston Globe Magazine editor Michael Fitzgerald found when he started digging around in a basement tool chest and came across a Stillson wrench. It's not just the story of a tool. It's the story of new American nation and its industrialization.

Sam Seidel
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