Marble (toy) of marble games to a meadow outside the town. It is unknown where marbles were first manufactured, but the "original" marbles were designated "made in Germany". The game has become popular throughout the US and other countries. Ceramic marbles entered inexpensive mass production in the 1870s. A German glassblower invented marble scissors, a device for making marbles, in 1846. The first mass-produced toy marbles (clay) made in the US were made in Akron, Ohio, by S. C. Dyke, in the early 1890s. Some of the first US-produced glass marbles were also made in Akron, by James Harvey Leighton. In 1903,
Arundel marbles Ancient Greece as standard units of measure. Another important object from Arundel's collection is the so-called Arundel Head, an Hellenistic bronze portrait of a philosopher or king from Asia Minor now in the British Museum. The Arundel marbles were catalogued as early as 1628, when, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Bruce Cotton, John Selden compiled a catalogue: "Marmora Arundeliana" with the assistance of two others, Patrick Young and Richard James. In 1763 Richard Chandler published a fine edition of the inscriptions as "Arundelian Marbles, Marmora Oxoniensia" with a Latin translation, and a number of suggestions for filling the lacunae