LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY,

John Brunswick of Brunswick Balke Collender Company is credited with the introduction of the billiards table in 1845. As his company grew, Brunswick successfully merged with Julius Balke's Great Western Billiard Manufactory and Hugh Collender's Phelan and Collender Company, thereby becoming known as Brunswick Balke Collender Company until 1960.