02/04/2024 By Kane Khanh
In 1944, as a ten-year-old boy, Newton Anderson’s task was to keep the coal furnace stoked at his home in Buckhannon, West Virginia, US. One evening, he went into the basement to refuel the stove and carried a massive lump of coal on his shovel. It wobbled as he took the loaded shovel, and the coal fell onto the floor, breaking the bow in two. A slender metallic object was revealed, protruding from one of the broken halves. Anderson set aside the piece with the curious thing and placed the remainder into the furnace. Over the next couple of days,