and who put the first phenolic tip on a break cue?
My interviews (which could be totally missing some things)
Inventor of the jump cue: Pat Fleming - traveled around with a rigged up, full-length cue that the back end was nearly weightless.
First to offer a jump cue as a product to sell: Pete Tascarella - someone saw Pat Fleming's rig and asked Pete if he could build a cue with a removable back end so he could jump. Long before a j/b cue was being sold
First jump cue with a phenolic: Chris Hightower (jump rod?) Not sure the timing here, but Chris had a short cue that was just a phenolic rod.
First jump cue with a phenolic tip: Happy Hopper (I think they were around a year before John (Collins) Barton came out with the Bunjee
First break cue with a phenolic tip/ferrule as a product to sell: Mike Gulyassy. I don't know if anyone ever tried a tip/ferrule combo before Mike did.
Somewhere in all this should be mentioned:
Sammy Jones - really a pioneer in jumping in general. Made jumping easy using just the shaft and waking up a lot of pros to the value of having a jump-only solution
Meucci and Huebler - both early pioneers in catalog-available production jump only cue. Meucci had nice, pretty ones.
Someone tell me where I'm wrong.