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Crafted in iron and wood, it weighed about 700 pounds (317 kg) and was decorated with 25-watt light bulbs. The first ball bore little resemblance to today’s crystal one. Not to be deterred from putting on a fabulous show, the Times introduced a new gimmick to bring partyers to Times Square: the New Year’s Eve Ball. But they also rained hot ash onto the New York City streets, a liability that worried city officials so much that fireworks were banned in 1907. The pyrotechnics made for an extraordinary show. The next day the Times reported that “from base to dome the giant structure was alight…never was a New Year’s Eve more joyously celebrated.” The same article described Times Square as packed by 9 PM, and by midnight “the crush was so great that progress was well nigh impossible in any direction.” At midnight, pyrotechnics were set off that made the building look as if it were literally on fire. Times Square was already a mecca for New Year’s Eve revelers by 1904, when hundreds of thousands of people chose to celebrate in Midtown Manhattan near the brand-new New York Times building (after which the square itself was named).

But while New Year’s Eve celebrants still flock to Times Square in New York City to see the ball drop, it’s likely that few contemporary viewers know where the ritual comes from.

That ball, powered by its 216 electric lamps, was the first of what immediately became an annual tradition. The ball will be five feet in diameter, and light for it will be supplied by 216 electric lamps.” “The exact moment of the New Year’s arrival will be signalized by the dropping of an electrically illuminated ball above the tower. “The Times Building will be especially illuminated to-night in honor of the birth of 1908,” announced The New York Times on December 31, 1907.

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