Another fun video from Process X on YouTube! In this segment, they visit the Nissho Corporation in Japan. To be honest, I never knew there was another name for this object besides disco ball.

If you’re interested in further reading, there’s a 2015 Vice article that explore’s the history of the mirror ball and how the object first became popular in the early 20th century and then became iconic during the 1970s disco era.

According to archival photos, mirror balls appeared in an assortment of locations, typically those related to social functions. Nearly 30 years after those electricians created a mirror ball for their shindig, an inventor named Louis B. Woeste filed a patent for an object he called a “myriad reflector.” The 1924 US patent filing describes the device as a “sphere, yet any other geometrical form-may be substituted therefor, which is preferably hollow and has its surface covered with a multitude of mirrors.”

Read the full piece here.