Check your toolbox after this story to make sure you have the innovative hand tool that was invented in DeWitt a century ago. The VISE-GRIP, or locking plier calls Nebraska home.
Nebraska Public Media producer Andy Hermann has the gripping story.
Guests, in order of appearance:
- Kirby Taylor, Program Chair, Precision Machining and Automation Technology, Southeast Community College;
- Marcia Bergmeyer, granddaughter of VISE-GRIP inventor William S. Petersen;
- Joyce Holtmeier, granddaughter of VISE-GRIP inventor William S. Petersen;
- Larry Wattjes, former mechanical maintenance engineer, Petersen Manufacturing; and
- Lois Wattjes, Vice President, DeWitt Historical Society.
