• Pool tables—or billiards, billiard or snooker tables—provide the rectangular, flat, smooth, elevated surface on which pool is played. The pool player uses a long cue stick to hit a cue ball that in turn hits other billiard balls into one of six pockets located on the corners and in the middle of the long side of the table.

• Fast Facts

  1. Typically seven to nine feet long, with nine being the most common length for pool halls
  2. Pubs often purchase "seven-footers" since space for them is limited
  3. Usually half as wide as they are long
  4. Surface is usually made of slate and covered with a green felt-like material called baize
  5. Pool table manufacturing took off in the United States by the end of the 19th century

• Brunswick's History

  Cincinnati, Ohio, carriage maker John Moses Brunswick built his first pool table in 1845 and had established the world's best-known pool table brand in five years' time. The company went on to manufacture many more items, from toilet seats to full-on yachts, and became especially known for marketing bowling-related items.

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