Raw tusks are not Bernales’s only medium—the heads of some of his saints began as billiard balls. Filipinos generally display two types of ivory santos: either solid carvings or images whose ...

Celluloid was first used industrially to replace ivory in billiard balls, and as film for cameras in the early days of cinema ...

Plastic’s history is chock-full of happy accidents, starting in the late 1860s when John Wesley Hyatt unintention-ally developed Celluloid, a synthetic plastic that he used as a substitute for ivory ...

In 1869 an innovative new material was created: plastic. Initially envisioned as a substitute for ivory in making billiard balls, the versatility of this new material has seen it applied to almost ...

In 1863, elephant ivory was getting scarce, so an American ivory billiard ball manufacturer offered a $10,000 reward to any inventor who could find an alternative material for the balls.

The automated score keeper uses a webcam duct taped to the ceiling right above the center of the pool table, The balls – red and yellow balls replace the rainbow of solids and stripes to make ...

As the world’s governments work on developing a legally binding agreement on plastic pollution by the end of 2024, replacing single-use plastic with single-use paper might seem like a straightforward ...

【Classic Art Number Style】pool balls features a hardened fade-resistant Luster Technology coating for superior scratch resistance and long color life.Classic Art Number Style. 【Size and ...

She also assesses the ecological impact of nineteenth-century fashion. ‘From civets horribly confined to produce perfume scent to elephants killed for ivory billiard balls and piano keys, Cowie ...

But we here at Hackaday don’t judge based on alternate input lifestyles, and we quite like this billiard ball trackball mouse. A trackball aficionado, [Adam Haile] spotted a billiard ball ...

Celluloid was first used industrially to replace ivory in billiard balls, and as film for cameras in the early days of cinema. Then, in 1884, French chemist Hilaire de Chardonnet patented the ...