Super Ball
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- For the Price is Right game, see Super Ball!!
SuperBall (originally Super Ball) is a toy manufactured by Wham-O. It is an extremely elastic ball made of Zectron, which contains the synthetic rubber polymer polybutadiene vulcanized with sulfur at a temperature of 165 degrees Celsius and at a pressure of 80 atmospheres. The Super Ball has an amazingly high coefficient of restitution. Dropped from shoulder level, Super Ball snapped nearly all the way back; thrown down, it could leap over a three-story building.
After watching his kids play with a Super Ball, Lamar Hunt, founder of the American Football League, coined the term Super Bowl.[1]
[edit] Reference
- ^ Rex W. Huppke (2007-01-30). Legends of the Bowl (html). Chicago Tribune. Retrieved on January 31, 2007. “Lamar Hunt, who died in December, coined the term Super Bowl in the late 1960s after watching his kids play with a Super Ball, the bouncy creation of iconic toy manufacturer Wham-O.”
- Frauenfelder, Mark; Sinclair, Carla; Branwyn, Gareth; Kreth, Will editors. (1995). "The Happy Mutant Handbook: Mischievous Fun for Higher Primates". New York, Riverhead Books (Penguin Group). ISBN 1-57322-502-9, pg..134-136
Inventor of super ball is Norman Stingley
[edit] Patent
- Stingley, Norman H., -- U.S. Patent 3241834 -- "Highly Resilient Polybutadiene Ball" -- March 22, 1966
[edit] External links
- Wham-O
- Superballs.com, a tribute site
- History of the Superball
- Kinematics of an Ultraelastic Rough Ball
- Sony BRAVIA Advert with 250,000 multi-coloured Super Balls
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