Helen L. Martin, GB191408976A
Improvements in Balls for Practising Golf.
Image credit: Martin, H.L. (1914)
On October 15, 1914, Helen Louisa Martin, a hospital matron at Bishop’s Stortford, Hertfordshire, UK, was awarded a patent for an improved golf ball. Her invention consisted of cork packing or chips, sawdust, cotton wool, or wood wool bound together with thread and encased in a jaconet exterior, all secured with a rubber solution.
Date of Application: 9 April 1914
Date of Issuance: 15 October 1914
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