Overview of Pool Tables, Biiliards and Pool Table Accessories
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History of Pool Tables
and Billiards
History
of Billiards and Billiard Tables ( Pool
Tables )
The history of Biiliards as a game is a bit of a mystery,
but if we look at the clues and speculation by pool ( Billiards
) experts, we can come to a reasonable conclusion. The
first syllable of the word Billiards is said to come from the French word
'Bille' which means a ball.
There is evidence that the game existed during the reign
of
Queen Elizabeth I.
The game existed at the time of Shakespeare, because in the play
"Anthony and Cleopatra". Cleopatra speaks the line - "Let us to
Billiards". So
Billiards was around at the time of Shakespeare, but we can't
conclude that it was around at the time the play was set.
( Ancient Rome)
What is yet more confusing, is that there are two variations
of the game of Billiards with a completely different pool
table in which to play on. There is the pool game and pool
table that most us know, with six pockets and a number of
pool balls.
There is also another game that has spread throughout the world
where ever the European influence has been in place that uses a
pool tables with no pockets and only three balls. This game is
known as Carom. Some people still call the pocket less tables Billiard
Tables and the six pocket table are called "Pocket Billiard Tables".
The best guess in my opinion is that the origin of the game of
pool and Pool Tables is an evolution of sorts from the French game
of
Croquet.
Croquet is a game which is played outside on a smooth bed of grass with large
balls that are propelled with a wooden implement through a hoop
that is driven into the grass.
It is a fair assumption that at some point some one decided that
they would take the game indoors and that it would be more convenient
to raise the playing surface to a table height. This is documented
in an engraving housed by the
National Library of Paris
depicting
King Louis XIV
playing a table version of Croquet. As you might guess,
the balls would probably roll off the table very easily. The solution
of course would be to put a barrier around the table, hence the
invention of the rail ( or cushion ).
Why green felt? This is probably to simulate the grass that Croquet
is played on.
Some where along the way , the hoops were abandoned and the wooden
implements turned into pool cues and Viola! The game of pool was
created.
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The best guess in my opinion is that the origin of the game of
pool and Pool Tables is an evolution of sorts from the French game
of
Croquet.
Croquet is a game which is played outside on a smooth bed of grass with large
balls that are propelled with a wooden implement through a hoop
that is driven into the grass. 
