Marble (toy) Martin Frederick Christensen—also of Akron, Ohio—made the first machine-made glass marbles on his patented machine. His company, The M. F. Christensen & Son Co., manufactured millions of toy and industrial glass marbles until they ceased operations in 1917. The next US company to enter the glass marble market was Akro Agate. This company was started by Akronites in 1911, but located in Clarksburg, West Virginia. Today, there are only two American-based toy marble manufacturers: Jabo Vitro in Reno, Ohio, and Marble King, in Paden City, West Virginia. In Australia, games were played with marbles of different sizes. The smallest and
What Are Little Girls Made Of? Handlen of "The A.V. Club" gave the episode a 'B+' rating, noting that the "repetitive plotting" took away any real sense of threat and that without Spock or McCoy to play off, Kirk's character is less interesting. What Are Little Girls Made Of? "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is the seventh episode of the of the American science fiction television series, "". Written by Robert Bloch and directed by James Goldstone, it first aired on October 20, 1966. The first episode of the series to be repeated on NBC, the title of the episode is taken from the fourth