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