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- | Frances Marshall, in //The Magic Dealer//, Vol. 2 No. 5, states that Jack Strothers invented sponge balls and the sponge rabbits, and that Martin Gardner should be credited with the commercial sponge ball routine that is the foundation of what is practiced today. However, Jesse J. Lybarger, in his " | + | Frances Marshall, in //The Magic Dealer//, Vol. 2 No. 5, c. 1982, states that Jack Strothers invented sponge balls and the sponge rabbits, and that Martin Gardner should be credited with the commercial sponge ball routine that is the foundation of what is practiced today. |
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+ | There is, though, evidence of other, earlier routines using sponge balls. In March 1925, Carl Brema advertised a set of Cups and Balls using "7 sponge rubber balls" | ||
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+ | However, see Amos C. Rohn's advertisement for the " | ||
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+ | Less than a year after this, Jesse J. Lybarger | ||
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+ | Until the 1970s, the sponge used for such routines was natural sea sponge and various synthetic sponge materials. All these were quite dense and heavy, and did not compress very well. That changed when Tenyo came out with a much, much softer material that compressed extremely well. Albert Goshman jumped in at that point to manufacture items using this new synthetic sponge in the U.S. Today virtually all sponge products for magicians are made of that lighter-composition material. | ||
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