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GENERAL USE OF MAPS

Courtesy of Commission of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia From Exhibit at New York Worlds Fair, 193Q

Inclined Rotating Globe So Balanced That Only Support Is Half-Inch Tube Containing Electric Wires.

1. Land with the exception of the British Empire is shown in brilliant blue celluloid, raised

above the aluminum surface. The British Empire is in red celluloid with the area for Australia cut out and illuminated from within so that the red of Australia shows more brilliantly than the rest of the British Empire. The sphere is over six feet in diameter, made from individual discs of plate aluminum, about 30 inches in diameter, spun to the correct spherical curvature. Discs were cut and welded to build up a continuous surface, the joints practically invisible.

2. Special feature of this globe is that it is supported by a half-inch diameter tube and rotated

by internal mechanism so balanced that the axis of the earth is inclined in the proper relation. Celluloid of Australia is removable as a man-hole cover so that a small workman may go inside if necpssary. Mirror below assists in accenting the southern polar region relative to Australia.

GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

Ford Motor Compnny.

Globe Used in the Ford Exhibit in the Rotunda Building in Dearborn, Michigan.