No matter where your celebrations for New Year's Eve are taking place, New York City's Times Square ... drop, the ball's design has been updated to include new lighting technology. The original ...

Lightbulbs, a new technology at the time, were used to create a lighted time ball. It would drop over Times Square for the first time on New Year's Eve 1907. That first ball was six feet in ...

Started in 1907, New York City’s Times Square Ball Drop is one of the most iconic ... and the ball was designed by Artkraft Strauss. The original ball was 5 feet (1.5 m) in diameter and was ...

The puzzlement I felt while asking myself why in God’s name go through the hassle of setting up in Times Square, one of the five most alive public spaces in the world, only to put walls up ...

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