Tellurian
date: label: date made
content: ca 1870
name: label: maker
content: American School Apparatus Co.
label: maker
content: Long, Marshall
notes: label: Description
content: This simple demonstration device is based on a patent (#88,187) issued in 1869 to Marshall Long, a teacher in New York. An example manufactured by the American School Apparatus Co., a firm that was in business in New York from about 1865 to 1875, won a first prize at the American Institute fair of 1869, and an honorable mention in 1870.
label: Description
content: This example sits on a circular walnut base. The Sun is missing. The Earth is marked “American School Apparatus Co. New York” and shows Alaska (1867), the pre-1867 boundary of the Dakota Territory, and such details as shipping routes and the “Submarine Cable” across the Atlantic.
label: Description
content: Ref: D. J. Warner, “The Geography of Heaven and Earth,” <i>Rittenhouse</i> 2 (1988): 23 and 110.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, New York City
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Globes
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content: Measuring & Mapping
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: D. C. Public Schools
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.326957
label: accession number
content: 264801
label: catalog number
content: 326957
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Orrery
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: iron (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: globe: 5 in; 12.7 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 18 1/2 in x 20 1/2 in x 9 1/2 in; 46.99 cm x 52.07 cm x 24.13 cm