Organizers of the iconic New Year's Eve party in New York City screwed the last crystals onto the ball Friday atop One Times Square. The ball is covered with 2,688 Waterford crystal triangles of ...

Lightbulbs, a new technology at the time, were used to create a lighted time ball. It would drop over Times ... crystal ball in the world. It can produce 16 million colors and billions of patterns.

Times Square's biggest tourist draw is the annual New Year's Eve ball drop. Revelers crowd the area to see New York's famous Waterford crystal ball descend 77 feet from a pole on the One Times ...