The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-06
HOW school Globes are Made.

| Terrestrial and celestial globes wer
more thought of few years ago as n
educational agency than they are to-day
In the old-fashioned times it was re
garded as can accomplishment" to know
"the use of the globes" and no younI
lady's education was supposed to b
complete without such an attainment
Nowadays the subject has dropped out o
school prospectuses. Yet good man,
| globes are still made, and it may interes
some of our readers to know how sucl
things are constructed.
The ordinary school globe seems ik'
a perfect and uniform production, as Al
egg, without external joints, balanced a
to gravitation, smooth, glossy, perfect
1t may have been puzzle to many whit
have poured over a globe in search of in
formation, to understand of what it wa
composed and how it was made. To fill
all the items of this information woulC
require long article, but an idea of the
composition and making of globes can bt
given in few sentences. A globe is, il
reality, two hemispheres of paper. The
paper is thick, porous, and resembles un'
pressed straw board. To form the hem
ispheres circular disc of this thick vel
low paper is cut into cores, just as one
might take the peel from half an orange
and cut half dozen annular pieces from
it, and then press the edges together until
they met. This is what is done in the
globe mandatory; but the goring ID
done in a cutting press by dies, so the
work is not only quickly done, but done
with great exactness. This exactness is
80 minute that when these gored discs
are placed under semi-globular press,
with the best glue on their edges, they
come out perfect half-spheres. Two of
these are connected by glue on the edges,
after being strung on wire that even
tually forms, at its two ends, the north
and south poles.
The globe, thus formed and left to dry,
is in about as unfinished state as this
now habitable one was before dinothe-
rum, and ichtheosaurus, and pterodactyl,
and all the host of extinct monsters put
in an appearance, and the human race
frightened itself with the high-sounding
Greek names. The embryo globe is a
dirty-looking ball of dried paper. 1t is
rasped down with abrasive materials and
painted over with a hard finish that
gives it a surface like glass.
Of course thorough drying is
necessary between the manipulating
processes. An after polish prepares the
globe for its instructive surface. This is
a map of the world in twelve sections, of
a lozenze form, or, to be more familiar,
Just what the sections of the peel of an
orange would be if cut into twelve pieces
from stem to bud. The sections are
printed on very thin but very tough pa
per, and a narrow margin is left on the
border, afterwards pared by scissors.
The placing of these on the globe is hand
work entirely, and is done by women,
whose delicacy of touch and carefulness
of handling appear to be specially adapt
ed to such "puttering" work. The op-
orator takes one of these ''gores" in the
fingers of the right hand, CLUES the globe
with brush held in the left, then care
fully beginning at one pole, follows
parallel of longitude up to and over the
equator to the north pole, rubbing, as her
fingers 60, the edges of the paper to their
place, and gradually working down"
the paper over its entire surface with an
ivory spatula or folder. This portion of
the work is an exemplifcatiOn of the
marvellous nicely of the human touch,
for much of this work is determined by
feeling. The operators fingers precede
and follow the ivory spatula or folder,
coaxing "fullnesses and compelling
"scantiness," and doing all so carefully
that in the Jennings of the twelve sections,
each with its two edges, and all of them
on curvatures, there is not the displace-
ment of fine line of single meridian,
the shading of an islet, nor the outline
of a coast misplaced nor disturbed. This
work is not like the transfer work on
porcelain that so much delights the mod
ern aesthetic eye, with occasional breaks
where the mandarin's umbrella is sepa-
rated as though he had used it as joint
ed rod in fishing, and the fan of the OBJ
lique-eyed girl appears to have become a
Chinese paper butterfly, and to have left
the handle for an aerial flight. The
hand work on the school globe requires
very careful manipulation, and every
globe is a work of conscientious en-.
deavor.
But beyond this work of covering the
globe, most of the construction is machine
work and operatives labor. The equa-
tors and meridianal circles are cast from
metal, marked by machinery, and all the
metallic work is that which can be seen
in any well-ordered machine shop. But
the perfect result is as nearly accurate as
any finished product of human effort
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