Object Details
- Educational Depository U.C.
- Description
- 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.
- 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.
- Ref: Catalogue of School Material Exhibited by the Education Department of Canada at the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia, 1876, p. 39.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior
- ca 1876
- ID Number
- PH.261259
- accession number
- 51116
- catalog number
- 261259
- Object Name
- Tellurian
- Physical Description
- cast iron (overall material)
- brass (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 11 in x 8 in; 27.94 cm x 20.32 cm
- overall: 15 1/2 in x 24 in x 8 3/8 in; 39.37 cm x 60.96 cm x 21.2725 cm
- place made
- Canada: Ontarian, Toronto
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- Globes
- Measuring & Mapping
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Astronomy
- Record ID
- nmah_1446245
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-dbaa-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
