If you watch the New Year’s festivities from New York, you know that they mark midnight with the dropping of a big, gaudy ...
Following is a transcript of the video. Narrator: The New Year's Eve ball drop started over 100 years ago. Based on a 19th-century maritime tradition, "time balls" were once dropped down poles in ...
When was the first ball drop in Times Square ... Each day, harbors and observatories would raise and lower a metal ball at the same time to allow sailors to synchronize their instruments.