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Golf Balls
You would be surprised at the technology embedded on golf balls. From
feather stuffed leather pillows to two-piece low compression process
that affords a long distance on low power to multiple icosahedrons
that provide airlift… you’d almost be pretty convinced that NASA engineers
were the ones providing this technology.
For a diminutive ball that has embedded the technology of rocket
science, golf balls have quite a history run. And adequately saying,
too, that every time a golf ball comes out with a radical science
the rules of the game also changes.
The first golf ball was a leather one stuffed full of chicken and
goose feather. Tightly stitched, these golf balls do provide a nice
rolling in the green until they fall apart in a shower of feathers.
These balls are very expensive due to the meticulous process of
boiling feathers and stitching the balls together by hand so that
they don’t easily fall apart. You see, from the beginning golf was
intended to be played by royalty.
The next deviant ball was Gutta-percha latex; a sap derivative from
a tree of the same name. Chemically, Gutta-percha is polyterpene
somewhat similar with rubber but with harder characteristics and non
brittle besides. The Gutta-percha golf balls did revolutionize the
game, affording an improved rolling over the green, resistance to
water (the feather leather golf balls do tend to get heavy
especially when water penetrates the core), and eliminated the
feathery showers much to the ladies’ displeasure.
Later, when a bungling Gutta-percha golf ball maker released a batch
of poorly formed balls, which in fact made a truer flight as
observed by the players, such golf balls with patterns and
impression became the newest radical concept. Hence, golf balls in
production began to be formed on molds and presses that created an
even pattern.
Later on, during this spree of testing the most aerodynamic design,
the idea of the dimple pattern was realized and the first dimpled
golf balls were used in 1908.
The first modern ball appeared on January 1, 1939. Now complete with
standardization of weight and size by the United States Golf
Association (USGA) and the Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, golf
balls of the modern age are of rocket science. Titanium compounds, a
hybrid of several technological breakthroughs, a pressurized core to
convert minimal energy into explosive energy, golf balls have more
technology implanted on them than golf clubs ever have. They are still intended to be played by royalty, but without those
showers of feathers of course.
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