SF fans will also, of course, remember the great tripods from H.G. Wells' 1898 classic War of the Worlds. Compare to the metallic spider from The War of the Worlds (1898) by H.G. Wells, the scarab robot from The Scarab (1936) by Raymond Z. Gallun, the spider robot from The My...
John Brashear served as Acting Director of Pittsburgh's Allegheny Observatory(then located on the campus of the Western University of Pennsylvania on Old Observatory Hill in Allegheny City, Pa., prior to theUniversity's planned move to the Oakland section of Pittsburgh; with annexation to the Cit...
the Los Angeles Griffith Observatory Planetarium (opened in 1935) was one of the five early US planetaria opened prior to World War II. Crompton, Janice. "Mary Elizabeth Lewis: Longtime acting teacher and Pittsburgh Playhouse veteran." Obituary. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 2023 April 19. First ret...
Cyclorama at Zoo Atlanta (404-624-1071) and Zoo Atlanta (404-624-5600) (both in Grant Park)- The Cyclorama is a Civil War-related artwork with hundreds of human-size toy Confederate and Union soldiers set against a 400-foot circular painting of the Battle of Atlanta. Zoo Atlanta has bee...