This video tests the limits of polymer strength by feeding pool balls into a high-torque shredder. Viewers get a front-row seat to slow-motion shots and technical breakdowns of material response ...

On June 15, 1869, John Wesley Hyatt, along with his brother Isaiah Hyatt, received a patent for celluloid, the first synthetic plastic. They had set out to make billiard balls, but had gone on to ...

making billiard balls; difficulty in getting good ones and the cost. a simple but very skillful process--composition balls and the date of their perfection.