Who is the inventor of billiards?

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Who is the inventor of billiards?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Hope this information will help you. Also see the source for how the game was by Dutch and french people and how the table which became indoor and height of the same.

The origin of the game of Billiards is very obscure, although many efforts have been made to trace its history, always without success. There are in existence a number of "theories" or "anecdotes" which endeavour to explain the origin of the game and the reader must choose whichever 'story" is preferred. One thing however is absolutely definite, it is an extremely old game which has gradually developed so that the present day game is completely unrecognisable from the original.

It is said by some writers that a game similar to Billiards was seen by a traveller called Anacharsis in Ancient Greece some 400 years B.C. We certainly have proof that Billiards was played during the reign of Elizabeth I, as Shakespeare in the play "Anthony and Cleopatra" has the Queen say to her Maid - "Come, Charmain, let us to Billiards". Note, however, whilst this certainly indicates that Shakespeare was acquainted with the game, it does not mean that it was known in Ancient Egypt.

It is accepted that the game was originally played on the ground out of doors and that it is related to the game of Croquet. This theory is supported by early illustrations and pictures, showing hoops and also a post (similar to Croquet) on the surface of the Billiards Table (see the illustrations) and that from the lawn it was bought indoors and for convenience raised to table height.

One "story" explaining how the game came to he called "Billiards" relates how a Pawnbroker by the name of William Kew, who, after losing the shop, used to take the three brass balls of his sign and used them to play in the yard behind the shop - his friends used to join him, saying they were going to play at Bill`s Yard"!! Maybe his name also explains why the instrument which wa use to propel the balls is called a "Cue".

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Answer 3

Monkeys.  They would roll coconuts around on the ground trying to make them into holes, but there is a similar argument that they invented bowling amongst some anthropologists.

Answer 4

read in this link -  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiards