who invented the wine cork and when?
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Early wine was stored first in terracotta amphoras and later in wooden barrels. Wine was never aged; it was briefly stored or transported and served before it had a chance to spoil. Wine glasses and decanters first appeared in Venice around the 12th century, used only for serving the wine.\n\nGlass-blowing technology improved and in the early 18th century glass wine bottles with small bottlenecks made airtight wine storage possible. Wine could now be safely aged.\n\nThe English were the first to seal wine bottles, using cork imported from Spain or Portugal. Cork comes from the wood of the Quercus Suber or cork tree, a species of Oak native to Spain. Obviously, corkscrews were invented as an easy way of removing the cork from a bottle.\n\nHowever, wine bottles were not the first bottles to be corked. Bottle tops and cans did not become common until after W.W.II. Before that time and before wine was ever corked, all kinds of substances were often stored in corked containers: beer, medicine, cosmetics and food. Many of these corked items required small corkscrews.\n\nWho invented the first corkscrew? Corkscrew historian Ron McLean from the "The Virtual Corkscrew Museum" had this to say:\n\n    "It is unknown when and who made the first corkscrew. The first corkscrews were derived from a gun worme, a tool with a single or double spiral end fitting used to clean musket barrels or to extract an unspent charge from the barrel. By the early 17th century corkscrews for removing corks were made by blacksmiths as using a cork to stopper a bottle was well established."\n\nCorkscrew inventors were inspired by a tool called the bulletscrew or gun worm, a device that extracted stuck bullets from rifles. McLean lists the following corkscrew patents gathered from his research as being firsts in several respective countries.\n\n  # England: Patent No 2061 granted to Samuel Henshall, Princes Street, Parish of Christchurch, Middlesex, on August 24, 1795.\n  # France: Patent No. 3571 granted to Francois Rever on February 23, 1828.\n  # U. S. A.: Patent No. 27,615 (see above) granted to M.L. Byrn of New York, N.Y. for a corkscrew on March 27, 1860. However, a much earlier patent No. 15,325 (see below) was granted on July 15, 1856 to George Blanchard of New York, N.Y. for a metallic tube nutmeg grater as the handle of a corkscrew. The patent illustration shows the tubular nutmeg grater as the handle of a wire helix corkscrew with the patent description mentioning the corkscrew connection three times.\n  # Germany: Patent No 16 granted to Benjamin Loew of Tilsit on July 3, 1877.\n  # Canada: Patent No.16,163 granted to William Addison of Hamilton, Ontario on January 23, 1883.
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that question ranks with who discovered u can get milk from cows and what they were doing at the time lol
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He invented:\nlightening rod\nbifocals\nFranklin stove\nsimple odometer\ncatheter\nconcept of daylight savings time
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Leonardo da Vinci.  Not a scientist, per se, but he did explore scientific thought and was a remarkable engineer and inventor.  Fascinating guy.
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Oliver Lodge\n\nPatented Invention: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_spark_plugs.htm\n\nAlso Edmund Berger (but he didn't patent)
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Dr. James Naismith invented it.\n\nGeorge Mikan was the star who helped popularize it
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1377, from Anglo-Norm. brocour "small trader," \nfrom Anglo-Fr. abrokur "retailer of wine, tapster," \nperhaps Port. alborcar "barter," but more likely O.Fr. brocheor, from brochier "to broach, tap, pierce (a keg)," from broche "pointed tool" (see broach (n.)), giving original sense of "wine dealer," hence "retailer, middleman, agent."
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Are you saying there was wine in the rock before he picked it up?  Where did the wine come from?  Where did it go?
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"In 1926, Einstein and former student Leó Szilárd co-invented the Einstein refrigerator. On November 11, 1930, U.S. Patent 1,781,541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for the refrigerator. The patent covered a thermodynamic refrigeration cycle providing cooling with no moving parts, at a constant pressure, with only heat as an input. The refrigeration cycle used ammonia, butane, and water."\n\nFrom Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein\n\nHope this helps!
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I don't know for sure if it originated there,but the Ancient Greeks ( B.C. ) made wine to trade for food...usually to barbarians so they could get a better deal after the barbarians were wasted.
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It was Robert Hooke He was an English Scientist.\nHe firt saw cells in wood from a cork tree he was studying.
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Barnicles is awesome, but yeah who invented it, good question, never thought of that before...\n\nWho's Imao Christa?
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Get a make your own home brew kit. he didn't do water into wine, anyone knows that takes weeks.
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da Vinci invented scissors. I don't know how he did or if it was intentional or not.
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It came shortly after man discovered/invented fermentation of grain or fruit.
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Robert Esnault-Pelterie would be most likely inventor if you wish to agree with the majority of researchers.\nFeel free to visit the source for information over the two mentioned inventors.
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Charles Gabriel Pravaz (1791-1853), French surgeon, and Alexander Wood (1817-1884), Scottish physician, independently invented the hypodermic syringe. It is first used to inject morphine as a painkiller