Tellurian
date: label: date made
content: ca 1876
name: label: maker
content: Educational Depository U.C.
notes: label: Description
content: This simple instrument has a heavy brass stand, and a horizontal arm that connects a brass Sun with the Earth and its Moon. A cartouche on the Earth reads “3 IN HEM GLOBE / EDUCATIONAL DEPOSITORY U.C.” Located in Toronto, the Educational Depository supplied books, charts, and other educational material to schools in Upper Canada.
label: Description
content: This tellurian was probably one of the many objects that the Education Department of Ontario sent to Philadelphia for the Centennial Exhibition of 1876. It then went to the U.S. Bureau of Education, and that organization transferred it to the Smithsonian in 1910.
label: Description
content: Ref: <i>Catalogue of School Material Exhibited by the Education Department of Canada at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876</i>, p. 39.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Canada: Ontarian, Toronto
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
label: See more items in
content: Globes
label: See more items in
content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.261259
label: accession number
content: 51116
label: catalog number
content: 261259
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Tellurian
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cast iron (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 11 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 20.32 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 1/2 in x 24 in x 8 3/8 in; 39.37 cm x 60.96 cm x 21.2725 cm