Word: planetarium
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Benito Mussolini, irked that the children of Germany should see the stars more clearly than the children of Fascismo, commanded that a great planetarium should be built by the firm of Carl Zeiss of Jena, Germany, and delivered over to Rome...
There will be one limitation only. The lecturer will have no pointer long enough to reach the outermost stars at the top of the planetarium. He will use a beam of light instead...
...people to go and look at is a working model of the free and boundless heavens. . . . Last week Dr. Fisher, who is an astronomer, told Manhattan illuminating engineers that the American Museum would soon start raising three millions for a projection planetarium, a dome 75 feet in diameter atop a five-story building designed as an astronomical centre for scholars, amateurs, sightseers of the whole country. Searchlights, meticulously aimed and synchronized, will cast into a night-blue field with a perfect illusion of limitless space, bright images of the moon, the sun, the planets, stars and Milky...