Polymers - Crash Course Chemistry #45
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Charles Darwin was a big fan of billiards. He loved his billiard table. It was one of his prized possessions and one of the most valuable things he owned. Well - not the actual table itself. In fact, it was the balls that were so valuable. Pure ivory carved from the tusks of elephants; only the wealthiest could afford a full set. Luckily he was married to an heiress. A full set of 16 billiard balls would require at least one, possibly two, full elephants worth of ivory. The idea that any bar in the world might contain a billiard table available for anyone to play, and not like run out of the bar with your pockets full of valuable ivory would have sounded insane in 1850. And the billiard industry was well aware of this problem. Billiard balls were getting ...
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Charles Darwin was a big fan of billiards. He loved his billiard table. It was one of his prized possessions and one of the most valuable things he owned. Well - not the actual table itself. In fact, it was the balls that were so valuable. Pure ivory carved from the tusks of elephants; only the wealthiest could afford a full set. Luckily he was married to an heiress. A full set of 16 billiard balls would require at least one, possibly two, full elephants worth of ivory. The idea that any bar in the world might contain a billiard table available for anyone to play, and not like run out of the bar with your pockets full of valuable ivory would have sounded insane in 1850. And the billiard industry was well aware of this problem. Billiard balls were getting ...
