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; *-•':«*•{. i "ft|in«f I itw i«filllf*ill*l#f , - . * k/ if; iii II ig ■ 4. V 3S.1. By Glenn B. Coughlan America's Space Age World's Fair, Century 21 Exposition, is part of the Seattle skyline this year from April 21 to October 21. The 74-acre fair, one mile from the city center, is served by the first highspeed mass-transportation Monorail. CENTURY 21 - The Seattle World's Fair The Northwest's biggest city is stirring with the same fever that gripped it in 1909 when the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition helped put Seattle on the map. Near the center of town is rising a gateway into the future — the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Pegged to a space-age theme, the fair is a spectacular reach to new horizons and a lusty expression of the country's faith in getting there. The whole fair will cost about $80 million and up to 10 million visitors are expected during the course of its six-month run. U. S. Science Pavilion The biggest exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair is sponsored by the federal government — the United States Science Pavilion. This exhibit, housed in a six-building complex widely hailed for the beauty of its architecture, is the most extensive science exhibit ever assembled. The $10 million appropriated by Congress to build the pavilion is the most money ever authorized by the federal government for a fair. Included is the Spacearium, with its simulated ride through the heavens past the moon, sun, Saturn, Pluto, and into nebulae beyond. This optical marvel is presented with the cooperation of Seattle's Boeing Company, Cinerama, Inc. and the Fairchild Camera Company. Here 750 people at one time will see a simulated trip into space projected on a dome by a single lens — an experience so hair-raising that designers insisted that handrails be installed in the stand-up theater to help viewers keep their balances. The system employs a single lens to create a viewing area of 360 degrees horizontally and 160 degrees vertically. As the film proceeds, the ornaments of the universe wheel slowly by, giving the viewer the illusion that he is soaring in the nose of a space ship. The ship takes off into the sunset, circles Earth and quickly approaches to 2,000 miles from the moon which almost envelopes the screen for a few moments. Then on to skirting the sun. Then comes Mars and a close-in look at green-bordered canals and reddish deserts and a moon of its own, and on through Saturn's ring. Soon our tiny solar system is far behind and giant stars fleet past — red giants and white dwarfs revolving around each other; great nebulae and dust clouds shimmering; partially exploded stars shrinking again — as you voyage through the billion billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy, out to where other galaxies beckon in the distance like single stars. Washington State Coliseum Spelling out the fair's theme is the "World of Century 21" exhibit in the Washington State Coliseum. The theme exhibit, housed in a "floating city" of the future, will show how man will live, i 20 T% v% 3fe if* T\KT3** %f igSifelP1 mm- ^v&sm "**!§#' * -*"* i IBL. * §"% 1 ,„' "-'"' iwssjt ftfe^ta \2 **% '%si 1
Object Description
Title | Century 21--the Seattle World's Fair |
Identifier | spl_c21_2771058 |
Description | Article in Data Link, a publication of the Institute of Radio Engineers, describing the Century 21 Exposition (Seattle World's Fair). |
Subjects (LCSH) |
Century 21 Exposition (1962 : Seattle, Wash.) Exhibitions--Washington (State)--Seattle |
Author | Coughlan, Glenn B. |
Date | 1962 |
Decade | 1960/1969 |
Period |
During the Fair |
Original Publisher | [Seattle? - Institute of Radio Engineers |
Notes | Handwritten on item: "7th region conference Seattle 1962 May 23-26" |
Digitization Specifications | Master images scanned on Xerox Workcentre Bookmark 40 at 600 pixels per inch, black and white, saved as TIFF files. |
File Format | image/jp2 |
Collection | Century 21 Digital Collection |
Contributing Institution | The Seattle Public Library |
Rights and Reproduction | For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights |
Type (DCMI) | text |
Local Type | Publications |
Source | http://seattle.bibliocommons.com/item/show/2771058030 |
Date created | 2015-04-12 |
Description
Title | Page 20 |
File Format | image/jp2 |
Collection | Century 21 Digital Collection |
Contributing Institution | The Seattle Public Library |
Rights and Reproduction | For information about rights and reproduction, visit http://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/rights |
Type (DCMI) | text |
Transcript | ; *-•':«*•{. i "ft|in«f I itw i«filllf*ill*l#f , - . * k/ if; iii II ig ■ 4. V 3S.1. By Glenn B. Coughlan America's Space Age World's Fair, Century 21 Exposition, is part of the Seattle skyline this year from April 21 to October 21. The 74-acre fair, one mile from the city center, is served by the first highspeed mass-transportation Monorail. CENTURY 21 - The Seattle World's Fair The Northwest's biggest city is stirring with the same fever that gripped it in 1909 when the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition helped put Seattle on the map. Near the center of town is rising a gateway into the future — the 1962 Seattle World's Fair. Pegged to a space-age theme, the fair is a spectacular reach to new horizons and a lusty expression of the country's faith in getting there. The whole fair will cost about $80 million and up to 10 million visitors are expected during the course of its six-month run. U. S. Science Pavilion The biggest exhibit at the Seattle World's Fair is sponsored by the federal government — the United States Science Pavilion. This exhibit, housed in a six-building complex widely hailed for the beauty of its architecture, is the most extensive science exhibit ever assembled. The $10 million appropriated by Congress to build the pavilion is the most money ever authorized by the federal government for a fair. Included is the Spacearium, with its simulated ride through the heavens past the moon, sun, Saturn, Pluto, and into nebulae beyond. This optical marvel is presented with the cooperation of Seattle's Boeing Company, Cinerama, Inc. and the Fairchild Camera Company. Here 750 people at one time will see a simulated trip into space projected on a dome by a single lens — an experience so hair-raising that designers insisted that handrails be installed in the stand-up theater to help viewers keep their balances. The system employs a single lens to create a viewing area of 360 degrees horizontally and 160 degrees vertically. As the film proceeds, the ornaments of the universe wheel slowly by, giving the viewer the illusion that he is soaring in the nose of a space ship. The ship takes off into the sunset, circles Earth and quickly approaches to 2,000 miles from the moon which almost envelopes the screen for a few moments. Then on to skirting the sun. Then comes Mars and a close-in look at green-bordered canals and reddish deserts and a moon of its own, and on through Saturn's ring. Soon our tiny solar system is far behind and giant stars fleet past — red giants and white dwarfs revolving around each other; great nebulae and dust clouds shimmering; partially exploded stars shrinking again — as you voyage through the billion billion stars of the Milky Way galaxy, out to where other galaxies beckon in the distance like single stars. Washington State Coliseum Spelling out the fair's theme is the "World of Century 21" exhibit in the Washington State Coliseum. The theme exhibit, housed in a "floating city" of the future, will show how man will live, i 20 T% v% 3fe if* T\KT3** %f igSifelP1 mm- ^v&sm "**!§#' * -*"* i IBL. * §"% 1 ,„' "-'"' iwssjt ftfe^ta \2 **% '%si 1 |
Date created | 2012-03-28 |