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November 1
The following is an
inventory of assets, originated at The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of
Popular Science. These assets were moved to The
Assets Transferred Under Terms of Three Memoranda of
Understanding Dated 2002 October 25 ¡Ì Dismantled
and placed in storage in The Carnegie Science Center¨ˆs Miller Building
Warehouse:
1)
Zeiss II Planetarium
Projector ¡Ì Prior to dismantling,
oldest operable major planetarium projector
in the world !
2)
Planetarium
Projector Control Console
3)
10-inch
Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope ¡Ì Prior
to dismantling, second largest Siderostat Telescope in operation in world !
4) Large
Mercator¨ˆs
Projection Map of the World ¡Ì When
first assembled for the 1939 World¨ˆs Fair in New York City, it was considered
the largest such map in the world !
Assets Moved to The
1)
4-Inch
Zeiss Terrestrial Refractor Telescope
(Currently used during "Observatory SkyWatch" sessions, usually on clear Saturday evenings, on the fifth floor of The Carnegie Science Center) --
Buhl Planetarium¨ˆs very
first telescope. Has unique history, due to purchase just prior to onset of
World War II. Terrestrial Refractor Telescope was sent to
2) Meteorites --
746-Pound (340 kg) Iron-Nickel Meteorite (Currently on public display near the entrance of the Henry Buhl, Jr. Planetarium, Carnegie Science Center),
fifth largest fragment from the
Barringer Meteor Crater
near
3)
Van de Graaff Electrostatic Generator (and brass railing which previously encircled
generator) - Medium-sized model (not large Van de Graaff purchased in the late 1980s)
4) Buhl Planetarium¨ˆs Hall
of the Universe included twenty-one classic, "push-button"
display case exhibits (Astronomy: eighteen exhibits; Meteorology: three
exhibits). The following five Astronomy exhibits are documented as being in
Buhl Planetarium¨ˆ s, originally-titled, Hall
of Astronomy on the date of building dedication:
a) Stars do Move
¡Ì Demonstrating
precession, with changes in the
star configuration of the Big Dipper over 200,000 years of time as an example.
b) Twin Stars ¡Ì Showing movement of a binary star system.
c) Light Takes
Time to Travel ¡Ì Regarding the speed of light.
d)
Tycho Brahe¨ˆs
Mural Quadrant - Animated Diorama of Tycho Brahe's Observatory in
e)
Observatory
of Hevelius at
5)
Eight Astronomical Paintings by Pennsylvania artist and architect Daniel Owen Stephens [
Bio 1 ***
Bio 2]:
a) The Dragon
b) A Perspective in Time
c)
Orion and
Taurus the Bull
d) The Old
Astronomer (A photograph of this painting has
been published in Astronomy textbooks, as well as in a 1961 black-and-white filmstrip for schools called "The Race for
Space.")
e)
Cygnus
the Swan
f)
Nine
Planets and A Million Suns
g)
The
Great Bear
h)
Copernicus (Portrait of Polish Astronomer Nicholas Copernicus. Commissioned
by the Polish Arts League of Pittsburgh; donated for Buhl Planetarium.)
6) Two
Portraits of Henry Buhl, Jr.
7) Portrait of
Louise Buhl, wife of Henry Buhl, Jr.
8) Fairbanks-Morse Planetary Weight Scale
(Currently in public use near the entrance of the Henry Buhl, Jr. Planetarium, Carnegie Science Center) --
Displays person's weight for the planets Earth,
Venus, Mars, and the Moon.
9) *Four
10) *Planetarium and Lecture Hall Sound Equipment
*Items with an asterisk
[*] indicate that these pieces of equipment or artifacts
were in the building on the day of dedication, and hence, are City property.
However, these specific items are not the original equipment, but replacements
for the original City-owned equipment; apparently, Buhl Planetarium management
deemed it necessary to replace this original equipment. Since this replacement
equipment was deemed necessary for continued operation of the institution [and,
in the case of the Planetarium and Lecture Hall sound equipment, was absolutely
essential!], this replacement equipment is City property.
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