Billiard Balls
- Description
- This is a set of three Bakelite billiard balls, in its original wooden box. The balls were made by the Hyatt-Burroughs Billiard Ball Co. of Newark, N.J. The date of manufacture is unknown. The label on the box states that "Bakelite Billiard balls are of the same resilience as the best ivory balls. 2-3/8 inch balls weigh exactly seven ounces, are of exact diameter, are perfectly and permanently round and balanced, unaffected by climactic conditions, and are practically indestructible."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- billiard balls
- Billiard and Cue Balls
- date made
- after 1907
- after 1910
- invented hyatt billiard ball
- Hyatt, John Wesley
- patentee of bakelite
- Baekeland, L. H.
- maker
- Hyatt-Burroughs Billiard Ball Company
- Physical Description
- plastic, resin, bakelite (balls material)
- wood (container material)
- cardboard (container material)
- Measurements
- box: 79 mm x 89 mm x 214 mm; 3 1/8 in x 3 1/2 in x 8 7/16 in
- Place Made
- United States: New Jersey, Newark
- ID Number
- 1981.0976.01
- catalog number
- 1981.0976.01
- accession number
- 1981.0976
- subject
- Sports & Leisure
- Industry & Manufacturing
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- Medicine and Science: Chemistry
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Gift of Union Carbide Corporation
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