Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1891 — NO CORKSCREW NEEDED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NO CORKSCREW NEEDED.

One Way to Open a Bottle Without Drawing the Cork. Said Ctesibius to his pupil: “Heron, will you have a glass of soda?” “ I don’t care if I do,” said Heron, Whereupon Ctesibius produced a quaint glass bottle, having a thick conical bottom, and containing a liquid said to be soda-water. “Here, my boy,” said he, “here is your soda; drink it without removing or perforating the cork or breaking the neck of the bottle.” Heron scratched his head, and revolving the bottle in his hand, while the problem was going through a similar evolution in his brain, said: “As

you w>ell know, dear teacher, I am up in mathematics, proficient in mechanics, and not behind the age in pneumatics and hydraulics, but for this problem I have no solution.” “ Heat! Unequal expansion!” said Ctesibius, impatiently. Heron, being an apt scholar, needed no further hint, says the Scienttfic American. Lighting a candle he held V under the thick conical end of the bottle, and in less than a minute by the clepsydra, the bottom of the bottle cracked around, the pressure from within blew out the detached piece, and the soda was dicharged with a fizz into the tumbler. The rest goes without saying. What has become of the old-fashioned young man who used to wear cloth gaiters?

DRAWING SODA WITHOUT REMOVING THE CORK OR BREAKING THE NECK OF THE BOTTLE.