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The Mark I was created in 1923–1924 and was the world's first modern planetarium projector. [3] The Mark II was developed during the 1930s by Carl Zeiss AG in Jena. Following WWII division of Germany and the founding of Carl Zeiss (West Germany) in Oberkochen (while the original Jena plant was located in East Germany), each factory developed ...
A Zeiss Universarium Mark IX starball projector. A planetarium projector, also known as a star projector, is a device used to project images of celestial objects onto the dome in a planetarium. Modern planetarium projectors were first designed and built by the Carl Zeiss Jena company in Germany between 1923 and 1925, and have since grown more ...
October 21, 1923: The "Wonder of Jena" had its first unofficial showings in the 16-meter dome which was set up on the roof of the Zeiss factory in Jena, using the first Model I star projector. The Zeiss Mark I was taken down and shipped to the Deutsches Museum in Munich, Germany, where it was installed in a 10-meter dome, becoming the first ...
The Zeiss I planetarium in Jena is also considered the first geodesic dome derived from the icosahedron, 26 years before Buckminster Fuller reinvented and popularized this design. Bauersfeld was awarded the Franklin Institute's Elliott Cresson Medal in 1933 and the Werner von Siemens Ring in 1941. Post-war, the Zeiss firm, like Germany, divided ...
The world's first planetarium projector, Zeiss Mark I, 1923 In 1905 Oskar von Miller (1855–1934) of the Deutsches Museum in Munich commissioned updated versions of a geared orrery and planetarium from M Sendtner, and later worked with Franz Meyer, chief engineer at the Carl Zeiss optical works in Jena , on the largest mechanical planetarium ...
The Zeiss Model II Star Projector Equipment in the Buhl Planetarium included a Zeiss II Planetarium projector with 106 lenses capable of producing 9000 images of stars. [ 7 ] The projector was manufactured by the Zeiss Optical Works in Jena, Germany, at a cost of $135,000.
First workshop of Carl Zeiss in the center of Jena, c. 1847 Carl Zeiss Jena (1910) One of the Stasi's cameras with the special SO-3.5.1 (5/17mm) lens developed by Carl Zeiss, a so-called "needle eye lens", for shooting through keyholes or holes down to 1 mm in diameter 2 historical lenses of Carl Zeiss, Nr. 145077 and Nr. 145078, Tessar 1:4,5 F=5,5cm DRP 142294 (produced before 1910) Carl ...
Hamburg Planetarium in 2019 Hamburg Planetarium Universarium Mark IX projector (2007) Hamburg Planetarium is one of the world's oldest, and one of Europe's most visited planetariums . It is located in the district of Winterhude , Hamburg , Germany, and housed in a former water tower at the center of Hamburg Stadtpark .