Exercise ball ball, ball, fitness ball, gym ball, gymnastic ball, physio ball, pilates ball, naval mine, Pezzi ball, stability ball, Swedish ball, therapy ball, or yoga ball. The physical object known as a "Swiss Ball" was developed in 1963 by Aquilino Cosani, an Italian plastics manufacturer. He perfected a process for moulding large puncture-resistant plastic balls. Those balls, then known as "Pezzi balls", were first used in treatment programs for newborns and infants by Mary Quinton, a British physiotherapist working in Switzerland. Later, Dr. Susanne Klein-Vogelbach, the director at the Physical Therapy School in Basel, Switzerland, integrated the use of ball exercise
Crystal ball ball that is brought into full sunlight. The image of the sun formed by a large crystal ball will burn a hand that is holding it, and can ignite dark-coloured flammable material placed near it. Ball lenses such as are used to couple fiber optics are identical to crystal balls, but in tiny form, commonly 1mm to 10mm in diameter. A crystal ball lies in the Sceptre of Scotland that is said to have been originally possessed by pagan druids. Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (also called "Penn Museum" for short) displays the third largest crystal