The corkscrew on eBay—sourcing family artifacts

Discovery Notebook
Walter Ruby's last enterprise was Ruby Carbonator Company
  • Nov 07, 2023

His Daily News obit reveals his final entrepreneurial idea.
Walter Ruby called "the gin king" in a 1934 advertisement
  • Nov 06, 2023

He cultivated an image as the witty, urbane man about town—the personification of his brand.
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Advertisements in the Merchandising section of The Billboard, Sept. 11, 1943
Ruby-design corkscrew was advertised to retailers in trade journal The Billboard
  • Nov 09, 2021

A version of Walters three-in-one corkscrew reached the market as a promotional novelty.
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Schematic drawings of Walter Ruby-patented corkscrew
Walter suffers a career setback
  • Dec 26, 2020

Suddenly, in 1937, things turned dramatically downhill for Walter Ruby. According to Stanley,…

Recapping my two corkscrew transactions
  • May 03, 2014

Other than having posted an artsy image of the Walter Ruby Jim Crax corkscrew, I see that I…

This is the Jim Crax corkscrew I bought in a private sale
  • Nov 15, 2013

I should have posted this in August when I received the Jim Crax corkscrew in a private sale.…

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Knud Knudsen in the 1940 census
Knudsen's occupation in 1940 census was "making novelties"
  • Jul 24, 2013

Knud Knudsen came to America in 1906 as a laborer and hired hand and retired in 1958 as the…

Knud Knudsen obituary
  • Jul 20, 2013

To learn more about Knud Knudsen, the inventor who bought the rights to my grandfather's…

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Knudsen picnic corkscrew
Timing of the Knudsen patent transfer and Walter Ruby's death
  • Jul 19, 2013

We don't have any information suggesting a connection between Walter Ruby's corkscrew patent and…

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Ruby corkscrew design
Walter Ruby sold the rights to his invention
  • Jul 19, 2013

New information discovered this week tends to confirm the story told by our father that his…

What we can learn from Walter's corkscrew
  • Jul 14, 2013

One thing I find especially interesting about the images we have of two Walter Ruby patented…

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Walter Ruby Patent Propelling Pencil & Corkscrew
Walter Ruby's patented corkscrew
  • Jul 14, 2013

Yesterday I went back to polish up my Walter Ruby story on Treelines, which recounts information…

Citations

Authors
Stanley L. Ruby(21) Chien-Shiung Wu(18) Emil Jan Konopinski(9) Brice M. Rustad(8) Allan Franklin(7) James S. Allen(7) R. E. Marshak(4) Otto Kofoed-Hansen(4) Leon Lidofsky(4) P. A. Flinn(4)
Subjects
angular correlation(21) beta decay theory(21) mössbauer effect(17) Rustad-Ruby experiment(17) beta spectrum experiment(14) parity nonconservation(12) Mössbauer spectroscopy(12) V–A theory(8) synchrotron radiation(8) helium-6(7)
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