A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

[gary]

In a story posted by Allison March a short while ago at the Institute of
Electrical and Electronics Engineers, she provides a brief history of the
world's first planetarium.

Originally Posted by Allison March, IEEE

In 1912, Oskar von Miller, an electrical engineer and founder of the Deutsches Museum, had an idea: Could you project an artificial starry sky onto a dome, as a way of demonstrating astronomical principles to the public?

It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany, to manufacture such a projector, they initially rebuffed him. Eventually, they agreed, and under the guidance of lead engineer Walther Bauersfeld, Zeiss created something amazing.

Story here :-
https://spectrum.ieee.org/planetarium-history

[Crater101 (Warren)]

Great piece of information, I've learned something today. Cheers!

[Startrek (Martin)]

Quite an engineering feat for the 1920’s to mimic the movement of the night sky in precise detail under a huge Dome. The Germans were certainly leaders in science and engineering leading up to WW2.
Thanks for posting
My wife and I visited the Greenwich Royal Observatory in July last year which included an hour in the Peter Harrison Planetarium ( built 2007) It was enjoyable to view the northern hemisphere night sky and see many of our southern popular celestial objects very low on the horizon
I think every primary school kid should visit a planetarium at some stage.