Pocket "Pool" and Carom "Billiards"?

One of my friends ask me about the difference between pocket or simple called “Pool” and the carom or “Billiard”. That is why I made this blog. Because at the first place, I don’t know what to say about this game although yes I played this game but the only thing that I know is that this game is fun and interesting for me. Not knowing what really difference between the two. So I find a time to have a research and I found out that both carom billiards and pocket billiards (pool) are cue sports. The game is played with a stick called a cue, which developed from a golf-club-like implement called the mace by the mid-1800s. Modern billiard cues have leather tips, are usually wooden, are often hand-made, and may have inlaid or other decorations. As with carom billiards, but pool cues on average are a little longer than carom cues, and have slightly smaller tips. Amateur league play has spawned a market for mass-produced and reasonably inexpensive but attractive cues. Moreover, carom billiards is a type of cue sport played with a cue stick which is used to strike billiard balls on a pocket less billiard table. The term is also sometimes applied the all cue sports as a class, or to specific games such as English billiards. Historically a gentleman’s game, Billiards was developed in the 19th century as a game of skill for men to play and wager on while enjoying a cigar in a private club. Points in billiards are scored by striking your opponent’s cue ball and vary based on the difficulty of the shot.  Rather than the white cue ball found in pool, cue balls in billiards are colored to make it easy to tell your cue from your opponent’s. Pool or pocket billiards is a popular variant of billiards played with a cue stick with usually 16 balls (or a subset thereof) on a pool table with 6 pockets. The game of pool developed out of billiards and was originally considered a common man’s game.  A pool game has a single white cue ball and fifteen additional balls of different colors.  Balls are numbered and are either solid or white with a colored stripe.  There are several variations of pool, but the objective of all of them is sinking your balls in the pockets before your opponent can. Pool tables have a pocket at each corner as well as a pocket at the center of each of the long sides.  Just like the game of billiards, pool players consider the angle of each possible shot.  Using techniques with names such as English or Masse’ players hit the cue ball to create spin, curve or velocity and hit a specific ball or series of balls on the table. So these are all the difference between pocket “pool” or carom “billiard”.