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|Year=1494 | |Year=1494 | ||
|Year Suffix=c | |Year Suffix=c | ||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=Christopher Columbus and the Coefficient of Restitution | |||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Tags=Famous | |Tags=Famous, | ||
|Text=<p>"When Christopher Columbus revisited Haiti on his second voyage, he observed some natives playing with a ball. | |Notables=Christopher Columbus | ||
<p>Holland Thompson, "Charles Goodyear and the History of Rubber," at <a href="http://inventors.about.come/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm">http://inventors.about.come/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm</a>, accessed 1/24/2007. | |Text=<p>"When Christopher Columbus revisited Haiti on his second voyage, he observed some natives playing with a ball. The men who came with Columbus to conquer the Indies had brought their Castilian wind-balls [wound from yarn] to play with in idle hours. But at once they found that the balls of Haiti were incomparably superior; they bounced better. These high-bouncing balls were made, they learned, from a milky fluid of the consistency of honey which the natives procured by tapping certain trees and then cured over the smoke of palm nuts. A discovery which improved the delights of ball games was noteworthy." 350 years later, after Goodyear discovered vulcanization [1839], "India rubber" balls were to be identified with the New York game of baseball.</p> | ||
<p>Holland Thompson, "Charles Goodyear and the History of Rubber," at <a href="http://inventors.about.come/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm">http://inventors.about.come/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm</a>, accessed 1/24/2007.</p> | |||
|Comment=<p><strong>Note:</strong> We need better sources for the Columbus story.</p> | |||
|Reviewed=Yes | |Reviewed=Yes | ||
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Text | "When Christopher Columbus revisited Haiti on his second voyage, he observed some natives playing with a ball. The men who came with Columbus to conquer the Indies had brought their Castilian wind-balls [wound from yarn] to play with in idle hours. But at once they found that the balls of Haiti were incomparably superior; they bounced better. These high-bouncing balls were made, they learned, from a milky fluid of the consistency of honey which the natives procured by tapping certain trees and then cured over the smoke of palm nuts. A discovery which improved the delights of ball games was noteworthy." 350 years later, after Goodyear discovered vulcanization [1839], "India rubber" balls were to be identified with the New York game of baseball. Holland Thompson, "Charles Goodyear and the History of Rubber," at http://inventors.about.come/cs/inventorsalphabet/a/rubber_2.htm, accessed 1/24/2007. |
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