Photograph Album -
The Carnegie
Science Center
The newest museum to bear the Carnegie name, The Carnegie Science
Center, opened to the public on October 5, 1991. It is the successor
to The Buhl
Planetarium and Institute of
Popular Science which opened as this country's fifth major
planetarium on October 24, 1939. The Carnegie Science Center is
located on Pittsburgh's North Shore near the Pittsburgh Steelers'
football stadium; The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular
Science building is located one mile to the northeast, in Allegheny
Center.
The Carnegie Science Center includes a new Henry Buhl, Jr.
Planetarium and
Observatory, Rangos
Omnimax Theater, Miniature
Railroad and Village, one
million-volt Oudin-type Tesla Coil, Computer Lab, and WPXI-TV 11 Weather
Center, as well as a World War II diesel-electric submarine, the U.S.S.
Requin(SS-481), moored in the Ohio River next to the Science Center
building.
The Carnegie Science Center is also the home to
the Pittsburgh Regional
Science and Engineering Fair. The third oldest Science
Fair in the United States(the oldest regional Science Fair in a
major metropolitan
area; the two older fairs are state-wide fairs), under the affiliation
of Science Service, Inc. which facilitates the International Science and
Engineering Fair, it started as the Pittsburgh Regional School Science and
Engineering Fair at The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular Science
in 1940. This competition is free to all students in grades
6-12 in public and non-public schools throughout 22 counties
within Western Pennsylvania and 3 counties in northern West Virginia. The
Science Fair
is co-sponsored by Carnegie Mellon University,
the Carnegie
Science Center,
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
University of Pittsburgh, and various
foundations, universities, colleges,
industries, corporations, and professional societies. -
Photograph 1 shows the main entrance to The Carnegie Science Center.
Photograph 2 shows the exterior of the Rangos Omnimax
Theater.
Photographs
3, 4, and 5 show scenes from the Science Center's very popular
exhibit, The Miniature Railroad and Village[which
has been displayed in
Pittsburgh(at Buhl or The Carnegie Science Center) for more than
forty years]. Photographs 3 and 4 show an historic
replica of the Sharon Steel Mill(not a Carnegie Steel or U.S.
Steel mill) on the railroad and village platform.
The Pullman Palace Car Company was one of Andrew Carnegie's many
businesses; photograph 5 shows the original model used to obtain a patent
for the Pullman Parlor Car, in 1878.
Photographs 6 through 11 show several long-time Science Center favorites,
which began exhibition at The Buhl Planetarium and Institute of Popular
Science. Photograph 6 shows the world globe made by
Rand McNally; The
Carnegie Museum of Natural History also has a world globe, of the same
exact size, which displays the continents a little differently.
Photographs 7 and 8 show the Foucault Pendulum; the beautiful brass and
marble pendulum pit, displaying the true cardinal points of direction,
remains
at the Buhl building. Photograph 9 shows the fifth largest meterorite
fragment, recovered from Meteor Crater in Arizona.
Photographs 10 and 11
show an historic four-inch refractor telescope(often used during
free Saturday evening observing sessions in the Henry Buhl, Jr.
Planetarium and Observatory of The
Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh)
produced by John Brashear,
a well-known Pittburgh astronomer and optician near the end of the
nineteenth century. An 11-inch
Brashear Refractor Telescope is used for free public
star parties of the Nicholas
E. Wagman Observatory, operated by
the Amateur Astronomers' Association
of Pittsburgh.
Photograph 12 shows
the U.S.S. Requin(SS-481), World War II diesel-electric submarine, moored
in the Ohio River, on the North Shore of
Science Park near The Carnegie Science Center.
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Photographs with Number (1): © Copyright 1999
Lynne S. Comunale, All Rights Reserved.
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