Corkscrew inventiveness exploded both mechanically and decoratively in a wild array of improbable devices. Corkscrews define humankind’s ingenious and cumulative effort to draw the cork and get ...

The first written reference to a corkscrew appears in a 1681 museum catalog that compares one rarity to “a Steel Worme used for the drawing of Corks out of Bottles,” implying that such a tool ...