Word: planetaria
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...banker (Hayden, Stone & Co.) who made millions speculating in copper, the versatile robot was built at the Zeiss Works in Jena, Germany at a cost of $110,000. When it made its debut, it was the fourth such instrument installed in a U.S. planetarium. There are now six Zeiss planetaria spotted across the country...
...feature of the Buhl star chamber with which Director Stokley is particularly Punch-pleased is an engineering stunt unique among the world's planetaria. When the audience assembles for the show, the big, dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst...
...benefit of fascinated multitudes in four of the biggest U. S. cities-Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Los Angeles - planetaria project artificial stars on artificial skies by means of big, complicated, dumbbell-shaped projectors, made by Zeiss and imported from Germany. Present price of a Zeiss instrument is around...
...have been many. He is a heavy contributor to peace groups, Jewish charities, medical and scientific research. He backed Dr. John A. Kolmer's infantile paralysis serum experiments, was on the Philadelphia Orchestra board until its reorganization last year, gave the planetarium at Franklin Institute. "I heard about planetaria, read about them, thought it would be well for Philadelphia to have one," he explained. "So I ordered...
...stars projected on the invisible vault of a darkened planetarium. Thus when a planetarium is opened in a U. S. city, wise news editors keep their elderly pooh-poohers in the shop and send their most impressionable young lyricists to cover the story. Thus, too, the four U. S. planetaria were made possible by gifts not from practicing esthetes but from a merchant, a soapmaker, a West Coast landowner, a socialite banker...