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A1 / Shelley Grieshop
 
  The first marbles were round stones, nuts or fired pieces of clay and pottery -- very different from the shiny ones shown above. In 1905, an Akron man created a machine to make perfectly-round marbles that could compete better in marble games than homemade varieties.