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Griffith Observatory is an observatory in Los Angeles, California, on the south-facing slope of Mount Hollywood in Griffith Park. It commands a view of the Los Angeles Basin including Downtown Los Angeles to the southeast, Hollywood to the south, and the Pacific Ocean to the southwest.
Los Angeles: Griffith Observatory: 40 ft (12.2 m) 240 lb (108.8 kg) 7.01 s Los Angeles: Occidental College: Modesto: Modesto Junior College Science Community Center [63] 42 ft (12.8 m) 250 lbs 7.2 s Monterey: Naval Postgraduate School: Napa: Stag's Leap Wine Cellars: Pleasant Hill: Diablo Valley College: Riverside: UC Riverside Physics ...
The Foucault pendulum or Foucault's pendulum is a simple device named after French physicist Léon Foucault, conceived as an experiment to demonstrate the Earth's rotation. If a long and heavy pendulum suspended from the high roof above a circular area is monitored over an extended period of time, its plane of oscillation appears to change ...
The observatory is a popular tourist attraction that features an extensive array of space- and science-related displays. The land on which the observatory stands was donated to the City of Los Angeles by Col. Griffith J. Griffith in 1896. In his will, Griffith donated funds to build an observatory, exhibit hall, and planetarium on
Griffith Park was the busiest destination in Los Angeles for on-location filming in 2011, with 346 production days, according to a FilmL.A. survey. [citation needed] Projects included the TV series Criminal Minds and The Closer. [63] Griffith Observatory Mount Lee with the Hollywood Sign. Some sites within the park that have appeared in media ...
The Astronomers Monument in front of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, California is a New Deal artwork created under the auspices of the Public Works of Art Project. The large outdoor concrete sculpture honors the work of six great astronomers and is a Griffith Park landmark in its own right.
Armillary sphere atop Astronomers Monument by Archibald Garner and company, Griffith Park, Los Angeles. The Transportation of the Mail reliefs for the downtown San Diego post office building are the only federally funded New Deal sculpture in that city. The terra cotta reliefs depict “a train, a ship, an airplane, and a car, are placed over ...
Griffith Jenkins Griffith (January 4, 1850 – July 6, 1919) was a Welsh-born American industrialist and philanthropist.After amassing a significant fortune from a mining syndicate in the 1880s, Griffith donated 3,015 acres (1,220 ha) to the City of Los Angeles that became Griffith Park, and he bequeathed the money to build the park's Greek Theatre and Griffith Observatory.