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Acknowledgments

My sincere thank you to the following who furnished information to help make this

book possible: Lucas Anapliotis, Danny Arensman, Jack Bandy, Mark Barlow, Olli Bartelt,

Klaus Biermann, Linda Bridges, Marian Bugitzedes, John Cameron, Eduardo Castro-

Olivera, Caroline Chew, John Compton, Herb Danziger, Dwight Dolliver, Heinz ten

Doornkaat, Christopher Egan, Alf Erickson, Ted Essig, Alvin Feuerbacher, Robert Fraser,

Rene de Gebhardt, Bert Giulian, Wolfgang Handel, Patricia Harbottle, Heinz Hohn,

Trevor and Sylvaine Holdsworth, Carter B. Horsley, Nick Hunt, Justine Kanodia,

Geoffrey Kenward, Fred Kincaid, Debbie Lampert, Constant Martin, Richard Miller, Don

Minzenmayer, Guy and Edith Olive, Joseph Paradi, Klaus Pumpenmeier, Steve Rasch,

Patrick Rennie, Nick Robinson, Antoine Songy, Walter Streicher, Hans Turler, Al Tyson,

Dean Walters, and Mavis Watney.

And very special words of appreciation go to:

Reinhold Berndt for sending "boxes full of ejectors."

Frank Chiorazzi of Franmara who has been so helpful with all of my corkscrew books.

Marta Flohr, Advanced Imaging and Analysis for information on bottle damage.

Terrence Meck of the

Wine Spectator On-line

for the quotes.

Robert Wickham, British Oxygen Company for help with the Corkmaster story.

Otto Schwarz, Girtag for the Corky information.

Ron MacLean for reading and critiquing the manuscript.

Micah D. Halpern of www.eluna.com

And last but not least, I thank the Austrian inventor of Mister Maximum, Gero Artmer,

for the information he furnished, the many questions he answered, and for taking the

time to read and comment on initial drafts of this book