Orrery / Armillary Sphere
date: label: date made
content: 1870s
notes: label: Description
content: Henry E. Bryant (ca. 1812-1881) was an artist in Hartford, Ct., who specialized in portraits and landscapes. Bryant also had several patents. One, issued in 1872, described an astronomical demonstration device that was a combination orrery and armillary sphere. The device was manufactured by the Bryant Celestial Indicator Company, also of Hartford, and retailed for $40.
label: Description
content: Ref: Henry Bryant, “Improvement in Armillary Spheres,” U.S. Patent 131,148 (Sept. 10, 1872), assigned to The Bryant Celestial Indicator Company, of Hartford, Conn.
label: Description
content: Henry Bryant, <i>The Celestial Indicator</i> (Hartford, ca. 1871).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Connecticut, Hartford
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ethelbert Allen Moore
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.313389
label: catalog number
content: 313389
label: accession number
content: 183058
objectType: label: Object Name
content: orrery
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 17 1/2 in x 11 5/8 in; 44.45 cm x 29.5275 cm