Historic print depicting Michael Phelan's Billiard Saloon located at the corner of 10th Street and Broadway in Manhattan, January 1, 1859.
Straight rail, also called straight billiards, three-ball billiards, or the free game, is a discipline of carom billiards that is the most basic form of the game. The game is played on a pocketless unmarked billiard table, usually 10 by 5 feet (3.0 m × 1.5 m) in size, and three billiard balls, one, usually white, that serves as the cue ball for the first player, a second cue ball for the second player (differentiated by a spot or by being yellow), and an object ball, usually red. The object of the game is to score points by striking the player's assigned cue ball with a cue stick so it makes contact with both the opponent's cue ball and the object ball in the same stroke, known as a carom. Games are played to a predetermined number of points.[1]
^Shamos, Michael Ian (1993). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Billiards. New York, NY: Lyons & Burford. ISBN 1-55821-219-1.
Straightrail, also called straight billiards, three-ball billiards, or the free game, is a discipline of carom billiards that is the most basic form...
historically are (chronologically by apparent date of development): straightrail, one-cushion, balkline, three-cushion and artistic billiards. Carom...
on tables without pockets, typically ten feet in length, including straightrail, balkline, one-cushion carom, three-cushion billiards, artistic billiards...
private dwellings with straight stairs and have a straightrail (track) which is attached to the steps of the staircase. Straight-rail stair lifts can usually...
less tedious for spectators than the precursor game, straightrail. The top players of straightrail became so skillful that they would score a seemingly...
American naturally aspirated V8s, under the hood of a custom-built straightrail (assymetrical) chassis weighing around 2,750 pounds (1,250 kg; 196 st)...
British Rail's Class 370 tilting trains, also referred to as APT-P (meaning Advanced Passenger Train Prototype), were the pre-production Advanced Passenger...
to: a road, route, path or pathway, including long-distance paths a straightrail or track on a machine tool (such as that on the bed of a lathe) on which...
full hit. straight eight Also straight eight-ball. Same as bar pool. Not to be confused with the games of straight pool or straightrail. straight up To play...
single horseshoe-shaped fife rail surround the base of the mast on the fore, starboard, and port sides, a single straightrail directly before or directly...
terminology is used in bartending. Look up straight up in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. In bartending, the terms "straight up" and "up" ordinarily refer to an...
In exhibition she was noted for running 10,000 points at the game of straightrail. After marrying a U.S. Army non-commissioned officer in 1950, Katsura...
The BMW N57 is a family of aluminium, turbocharged straight-6 common rail diesel engines. The engines utilize variable geometry turbochargers and Bosch...
Group M47R are straight-4 Diesel engines. Variants were manufactured by BMW from 1998 to 2007. BMW gradually adopted high-pressure common rail fuel injection...
geometries: In a linear eddy current brake, the conductive piece is a straightrail or track that the magnet moves along. In a circular, disk or rotary...
system in the country which connects rail, road and water transport facilities. It is also the first metro rail system in India to be operated using the...
continuous welded rail when necessary, usually for signal circuit gaps. Instead of a joint that passes straight across the rail, the two rail ends are sometimes...
intermediary game between straightrail|straightrail and balkine. In 1889, Adams broke the world record run for successive straightrail points in a match with...
may refer to: Edward W. Gardner (1867–1932), American balkline and straightrail billiards champion Edward Joseph Gardner (1898–1950), U.S. Representative...
a short section of the rail's bottom itself. This can be called a heelless switch. Turnouts were originally built with straight switch blades, which ended...
machine or ballast tamper, informally simply a tamper, is a self-propelled, rail-mounted machine used to pack (or tamp) the track ballast under railway tracks...
needed] Pocketless carom billiards tables are used for such games as straightrail, balkline, one-cushion billiards, three-cushion caroms, and artistic...
dovetail rail usually refer to any straight mounting bracket with an inverted trapezoid (dovetail) cross-section (though the hexagonal-profiled Weaver rail and...
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