Volleyball History

Did you know that there are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week every week. In 1895 William G. Morgan created the game volleyball for the people who could not keep up with the fast pace of other sports. Soon following, in 1900 the special ball was perfected for the sport, the volleyball. Since 1900 the game has had many changes and so has the ball itself. In this essay I will be telling you about some cool history, interesting facts about how volleyballs are made and some of the weird materials.

To start of with, I will tell you how the game of volleyball and the volleyball itself came to be. First off, the volleyball was first needed in 1895 when William Morgan invented the game of volleyball. Morgan invented the game for people who could not keep up with the fast

pace of other sports, but when he invented the game he found out that a basketball was to heavy and the sport needed its own ball. The first volleyballs were made out of the bladder of a basketball, but they decided that the sport would need a custom made ball. The first official volleyball was made by the company Spalding in 1896, and was perfected in 1900. Believe it or not the volleyball that was created in 1900 could possibly be used in today's games, seeing as there shape and weight would have been up to standards used today. The only changes to the ball were some changes to make the ball more accurate and perfectly round to go through the air better.
Next, I will tell you about some of the parts of the mass production that the volleyball goes through before you buy it at the store.

First, in mass production the bladder of the volleyball is made by pouring hot rubber into a mold which then molds the hot rubber into the shape of the ball. After this the balls go through a 24 hour inflation test to make sure that the ball holds air up to standards. After the inflation test they cover the bladders in multiple layers of thin nylon thread to help when being made so the rest of the materials that are put on don't slip around as much. Second, after the bladder is made and the nylon is put around it, they put a layer of rubber, a layer of soft composite micro soft leather material, and a surface layer of synthetic laminated rubber. They put all of these layers together on a machine that heat compresses them to make them stick together, except for the very last layer that goes on the outside. The last outside panels are glued on by hand and they are put into a special formation to their desired look. Soon followed they will be tested and later if they pass the tests they will be put into boxes and shipped off to be

sold.
Lastly I will be telling you about some of the raw materials of a volleyball and how they will be used in the volleyball. One of the raw materials of the ball is rubber. Rubber is used for many differ jobs in the volleyball, including the base layer of the volleyball and the top layer of some of the Volleyballs. Rubber is one of the most important raw materials of the volleyball. Another couple of the materials are nylon and leather. Leather makes up the layers underneath the skin of the top where the design is. The nylon layer is used for another of the under layers of the volley. These materials are probably the second most important materials of the volleyball. These raw materials make up the majority of the ball and are very important to keeping up the structure of the ball.
In conclusion, the history, mass production, and raw materials are some of the most important things about a volleyball. The ball was invented 1896 and perfected in 1900. The mass production of the bladder and the pressing together of the layer on top. And the raw materials of the ball.