In today’s peek into the archives, Museum artist Robert Kane works on a mural of the Moon in the original Hayden Planetarium. Craters and mountain peaks appear three-dimensional, as if the observer has just stepped on to the lunar surface. Once finished, the mural was lit by black light, capturing the effect of sunlight reflected from planet Earth some 230 thousand miles away.
Check back next Friday for more images from the Hayden Planetarium archives.
(AMNH Library/1543; image dated October 1968)
Traffic lights are made in Shreveport, Louisiana, and sent around the U.S. and abroad, December 1947.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
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Man, this is cool!
Mark Twain, in Nikola Tesla’s laboratory. According to the University of Virginia, the photograph was taken in the spring of 1894. As an article in Century Magazine stated,
Mr. Tesla invites attention to-day, whether for profound investigations into the nature of electricity, or for beautiful inventions in which is offered a concrete embodiment of the latest means for attaining the ends most sought after in the distribution of light, heat, and power, and in the distant communication of intelligence. Any one desirous of understanding the trend and scope of modern electrical advance will find many clues in the work of this inventor.
So, does this mean I can go about believing that Mark Twain and Nikola Tesla were bros?
“She was beautiful; there is no denying that. And her looks captured the zeitgeist of her day: strong but feminine, pale but with lively rosey skin. For the next near-decade, Audrey posed for a litany of different works of art. Her face was slathered onto canvas, woven into tapestries, and chiseled out of stone.”
