While the bottle cap is removed by a standard wall-mounted opener, the fun starts when the cap falls through a wooden labyrinth of various mechanisms reminiscent of a Rube Goldberg machine.

So, a wooden door jam is ideal for this,” he says ... a party of twenty guests each take a whack at the shoe on the wall ...

In 1795, Reverend Samuel Henshall patented the world’s first modern corkscrew; it had a simple (but effective) design comprised of a wooden ... bottle after bottle of wine to find out which ...