Addendum:
Inventory of City of
Originated at The Buhl Planetarium and
Institute of Popular Science,
Moved
to The
2003
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 – Dismantled
and placed in storage in The Carnegie Science Center’s Miller Building
Warehouse:
1) Zeiss II
Planetarium Projector – Prior to
dismantling, oldest operable major
planetarium projector in the world !
2) Planetarium
Projector Control Console
3) 10-inch
Siderostat-type Refractor Telescope – Prior
to dismantling, second largest Siderostat Telescope in operation in world !
4) Mercator’s
Projection Map of the World – When
first assembled for the 1939 World’s 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 – Buhl Planetarium’s 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,
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)
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4) Buhl Planetarium’s 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’ s, originally-titled, Hall
of Astronomy on the date of building dedication:
a) Stars do Move
– Demonstrating
precession, with changes in the
star configuration of the Big Dipper over 200,000 years of time as an example.
b) Twin Stars – Showing movement of a binary star system.
c) Light Takes
Time to Travel – Regarding the speed of light.
d) Tycho Brahe’s
Mural Quadrant - Animated Diorama of Tycho Brahe's Observatory in
e) Observatory
of Hevelius at
5)
Eight Astronomical Paintings by Daniel Owen Stevens:
a) The Dragon
b) A Perspective in Time
c)
Orion and
Taurus the Bull
d) The Old
Astronomer (This painting was
also published in an Astronomy book.)
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 - 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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