Object Details
- Summary
- Juan Trippe's Globe
- From his office in New York City, Pan American president Juan T. Trippe used this globe to plan his airline's expansion around the world. Trippe often would stretch a string between two points on the globe and calculate the distance and time it would take for his airliners to fly between them. Made in the late 1800s, this globe was featured prominently in many publicity photos of Trippe, and it became part of Pan Am's and Trippe's public image.
- Gift of the Pan American Historical Foundation
- Credit Line
- Gift of Pan-Am Historical Foundation.
- Inventory Number
- A20040142000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- MEMORABILIA-Miscellaneous
- Materials
- paper mache sphere, hand-colored copper plate engravings, brass meridian ring, wooden (oak) stand
- Dimensions
- 3-D (Assembled with base, see note): 109.2 × 109.2 × 133.3cm, 79.8kg (3 ft. 7 in. × 3 ft. 7 in. × 4 ft. 4 1/2 in., 176lb.)
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC
- Exhibition
- America by Air
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A20040142000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9be4ac461-6d8e-4bee-b57b-9a6186a2c013
