This improved corn husker consists in two cylinders grooved around their circumferences, and armed with teeth, so that they meet at such an angle as to draw away the husk, and throw the corn into a receptacle beneath. It is the invention of H. A. Doster, of Bethlehem, Pa., and was patented this week.
This article was originally published with the title "Corn Husker" in Scientific American 13, 12, 91 (November 1857)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican11281857-91k