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DIABOLO , a See also:game played with a sort of See also:top in the shape of two cones joined at their apices, which is spun, thrown, and caught by means of a See also:cord strung to two sticks. The See also:idea of the game appears originally to have come from See also:China, where a top (Kouengen), made of two hollow pierced cylinders of See also:- METAL
- METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)
metal or See also:wood, joined by a rod—and often of immense See also:size,—was made by rotation to hum with a loud See also:noise, and was used by pedlars to attract customers. From China it was introduced by missionaries to See also:Europe; and a See also:form of the game, known as " the See also:devil on two sticks," appears to have been known in See also:England towards the end of the 18th See also:century, and See also:Lord See also:Macartney is credited with improvements in it. But its See also:principal See also:vogue was in See also:France in 1812, where the top was called " le diable." Amusing old prints exist (see See also:Fry's See also:Magazine, See also:March and See also:December 1907), depicting examples of the popular craze in France at the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time. The diable of those days resembled a globular wooden dumb-See also:- BELL
- BELL, ALEXANDER MELVILLE (1819—1905)
- BELL, ANDREW (1753—1832)
- BELL, GEORGE JOSEPH (1770-1843)
- BELL, HENRY (1767-1830)
- BELL, HENRY GLASSFORD (1803-1874)
- BELL, JACOB (1810-1859)
- BELL, JOHN (1691-178o)
- BELL, JOHN (1763-1820)
- BELL, JOHN (1797-1869)
- BELL, ROBERT (1800-1867)
- BELL, SIR CHARLES (1774—1842)
bell with a See also:short See also:waist, and the sonorous hum when spinning—the bruit du diable—was a pronounced feature. At intervals during the century occasional attempts to revive the game of See also:spinning a top of this sort on a See also:string were made, but it was not till 1906 that the sensation of 1812 began to be repeated. A See also:French engineer, Gustave Phillipart, discovering some old implements of the game, had experimented for some time with new forms of top with a view to bringing it again into popularity; and having devised the See also:double-See also:cone shape, and added a See also:miniature See also:bicycle See also:tire of See also:rubber See also:round the rims of the two ends of the double-cone, with other improvements, he named it " diabolo." The use of celluloid in preference to metal or wood as its material appears to have been due to a See also:suggestion of Mr C. B. Fry, who was consulted by the inventor on the subject. The game of spinning, throwing and catching the diabolo was rapidly elaborated in various directions, both as an exercise of skill in doing tricks, and in " diabolo See also:tennis " and other ways as an athletic pastime. From See also:Paris, See also:Ostend and the See also:chief French seaside resorts, where it became popular in 1906, its vogue spread in 1907 so that in France and England it became the fashionable " rage " among both See also:children and adults.
The See also:mechanics of the diabolo were worked out by See also:Professor C. V. Boys in the Proc. Phys. See also:Soc. (See also:London), Nov. 1907.
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