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This image from The Illustrated London News depicts a Barlow planetarium, identical to one being restored by Transylvania, at a world’s fair in Paris.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Transylvania University is bringing together cutting-edge\nand old-school technology \u2014 from a 3D printer to an Amish foundry \u2014 to restore\na device that in the mid 1800s was so ahead of its time it served as a\nmechanical computer that could even predict eclipses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Barlow planetarium somehow got wrecked en route to a world\u2019s fair more than a century ago and then languished for years in a campus storeroom. It is one of five still in existence out of the roughly 20 original devices, which are mechanical models depicting the workings of the inner solar system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s just a wonderful machine,” said Jamie Day, a\nTransylvania physics professor spearheading the restoration. “It’s\nstunning when you see one assembled in person.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The project launched with a visit a few years ago by University of Kentucky Extension Professor Brent Rowell, who restores old solar engines from the turn of the last century. Rowell and Day had parts from a similar planetarium in Frankfort, Kentucky, scanned and reproduced with a 3D printer \u2014 then they enlisted Amish foundry workers to use these plastic models to create the metalwork using old-timey methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rowell with the planetarium in Transylvania’s Moosnick Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The university now has all the planetarium’s structural\nelements, but is missing a few gears from the gear train, planets (wood covered\nwith gold leaf) and the sun (a brass ball).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Transylvania President Seamus Carey championed the\nproject and left restoration money in the budget before he recently departed\nfor Iona College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The planetarium \u2014 also called an orrery \u2014 originally came into existence with the help of one of Carey’s predecessors, mathematician James Dodd. President Dodd helped the inventor, Lexington industrialist Thomas Harris Barlow, figure out the math for the gear ratios. Once it was finished, the school paid Barlow $250 in tuition coupons for the machine, a relative bargain given that the U.S. military paid him $2,000 each for two of them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the restoration is complete \u2014 perhaps in a year and a half \u2014 Day isn’t sure where the school will display the planetarium, which measures 13 feet in diameter. He and Carey, though, discussed the new Campus Center under construction as a possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on Transylvania’s rich scientific history, the machine will join the school\u2019s other icons like the Kissing Tree and Rafinesque’s Tomb. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s just hugely symbolic for the school,” Day said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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