One day, the American Wallace came up with an unusual idea. To implement it, nothing was needed ordinary matches and glue.

It took the guy ten months and $500 to bring his idea to life. That’s exactly how much he spent to build a sphere of more than 40,000 matches.

Wallace once fingered the matches between his fingers and noticed that their heads were slightly larger than the stick itself.

The idea occurred to him to try to glue them together to make a ball. Starting his experiment, the guy didn’t know how it would end, but he still decided to film every stage of the process.

Using a modeling program, he calculated how many matches he would need to make a sphere. It turned out to be sixty-two and a half thousand. Wallace already knew that there were three hundred matches in one box.

So he needed to find more than two hundred boxes. The guy remembers that when he was buying matches, the sellers looked at him like an arsonist.

The project turned out to be so large that the experimenter’s computer even froze—the model took up almost all of its memory.

Therefore, he remade it and left only the fourth part in virtual reality. Then the gluing process itself began.

From the very beginning, the guy was literally burning with his idea. Wallace was very proud that his calculations turned out to be correct.

Gluing went faster when Wallace came up with a new method. He laid out matches on the table in small piles of seven, and then glued them together at a time.

The joy that I was able to collect half of it was indescribable. However, on the other hand, the guy understood that there was still a lot of work to do.

But the experimenter continued to collect the sphere. Continuing to grow, the sphere began to resemble a child’s approximation of a sphere.

The form conceived on the computer did not come out, but Wallace was no longer worried. He saw that he was on the right path.

After half the job was done, the guy noticed that it became a little more difficult to stack the glued matches.

The most dangerous thing about the work was that Wallace assembled it in a metal workshop. It took him a lot of work to protect his brainchild from sparks falling on it.

Wallace still had very little time left. And even though it didn’t become a perfect ball, the guy was very proud of his work.

And now, after ten months of work, the sphere was ready. By the way, it is also noticeable that not all matches are the same green color. There are also darker tones.

Once the job was done, Wallis hung the sphere from a rope in his yard. And then came the culmination of almost a year’s worth of action. The guy set his work on fire.