Thursday, June 25, 2020

TODAY: JUNE 25 U.S. PATENT 1,718,305 awarded to George L. Pierce on June 25, 1929 for a “Basket Ball”.

James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a football ball up and down a court of unspecified

dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. However, another decade passed before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored. US Patent #1,718,305 was granted to G L Pierce on June 25, 1929 for the "basketball" used in the game.

 

Sources:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/sponsored/patents-behind-basketball-180971830/

https://www.robinage.com/sports/know-more-basketball.htm


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