Word: pincushions
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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...remarkable menagerie is not the only feature of the room. On the lampshades are written laws of physics. A large pincushion has sticking out of it numerous pins of different length. The length of the pins represents the distance of the planets from the earth, and the size of the pinheads is as nearly as possible relative to the sizes of the planets, though it was impossible to carry this plan to completion...