Brief History on the Auger
The first known auger was invented in 250 B.C. by Archimedes. It came in the form of a water screw that he developed to move large amounts of water uphill.
As the screw turned, the flat, wide thread collected small pools of water, pushing them along the bed of a trough, before depositing them into another reservoir.
This principle was soon applied to drilling. As a drill bit turned and bored a hole, the wide, flat screw thread pushed waste material up and out of the hole to stop it from getting clogged.
T-augers
Originally, augers were used as hand tools, and turned using a handle mounted across the top of the bit. These were called T-augers due to their shape.
Modern augers
In 1809, an American shipwright named Ezra L'Hommedieu filed the first patent for the spiral auger, which is still in use today. He subsequently went on to refine the design specifically for use in ship building.
By the early 1900s, T-augers were out of date, and the first power drills were already in existence. Auger bits are used with power drills to this day.
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