largest sundial

2015-10-27 Thread Jackie Jones
Can someone please tell me what is the world’s largest sundial? If a vertical tower, how high above the ground is the nodus? I have been consulted by someone who is claiming that a tower he wants to use as a sundial, which is 162m tall, will be the world’s largest dial. There are many issues

Re: largest sundial

2015-10-27 Thread Dan-George Uza
He or she should hurry, seems there are already plans to transform the Berlin Fernsehturm into a giant sundial (368 m) by marking the hours on surrounding buildings. http://www.sonnenuhr-berlin.com/ Dan Uza On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM, Jackie Jones wrote: > Can

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2015-10-27 Thread Reinhold Kriegler
Title: Largest sundial... O Jackie Jones! With the "largest sundial" the situation is pretty similar as with the tallest girl! It is not necessary to be the tallest girl in town, but to be the most beautiful girl! I remember pretty well the situation many years ago in Japan: The Mayor of

Re: largest sundial

2015-10-27 Thread R.Pauli
I heard Bill Nye The Science Guy talk about his father wanting to set out marks for the Washington Monument. Great idea, but the problem was the fuzzy shadow. On 10/27/2015 3:33 AM, Jackie Jones wrote: Can someone please tell me what is the world’s largest sundial? If a vertical tower,

Re: largest sundial

2015-10-27 Thread Kurt Niel
Already built a vertical flat sundial with 240 m^m http://kepleruhr.eu - horizontal ones could be much bigger... Kurt Niel Am 27.10.2015 20:04 schrieb "R.Pauli" : > I heard Bill Nye The Science Guy talk about his father wanting to set out > marks for the Washington Monument. >

RE: largest sundial

2015-10-27 Thread Robert Terwilliger
> I heard Bill Nye The Science Guy talk about his father wanting to set out marks for the Washington Monument. A few of us met with Bill Nye's father in 1994 when we were in Washington for the first NASS annual conference. I had made a map of the venues.