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Scituate |
Massachusetts |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1153 |
| Horizontal sundial for latitude 42 degrees, made from a rough hewn, rectangular sandstone slab and resting on top of three courses of granite field-stone. Roman numerals and hour lines are inscribed with a sharp tool on the surface, V-XII-VII. The gnomon was originally an iron rod set at an angle without any secondary support. It has corroded an... |
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Dothan |
Alabama |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1152 |
| This equatorial sundial (called an Armillary by its owners) is made from 17 species of wood and with plinth stands 7-ft (2.1m) tall. The gnomon is brass with a traditional wood arrow point and tail. The base holding the equatorial dial is a circular top with compass rose of inlaid wood. The wood dial and base sit on a circular plinth dais of con... |
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Key West |
Florida |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
1151 |
| This alignment sculpture, "Wavehenge", was conceived as a site specific piece for people to sit by the water and enjoy the view. It also functions as a daily sundial and solar calendar — the shadow lands exactly on the curved outline of one ‘raft’ bench when the hour and minute of the day matches the month and day of the year. Specifically, i... |
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Shafer |
Minnesota |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1150 |
| This 9 ft (3m) tall horizontal dial, called "Time is of the Essence", is a fully functioning sundial and sculptural installation that casts shadows and reflected light onto hour lines. Built with three layers of mirrored stainless steel and laser-cut acrylic, the sculpture casts an almost 50-foot rainbow spectrum that moves slowly from west to east... |
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Vernon |
British Columbia |
Canada |
Heliochronometer |
1149 |
| 3D-Printed replica of an early 20th-century Pilkington & Gibbs Heliochronometer. In 1906, G. Gibbs applied for a patent for a novel sundial design—the Universal Equinoctial Mean Time Heliochronometer. This sundial represented a technical pinnacle of early modern sundials, combining mechanical ingenuity with practical timekeeping capabilities. Its... |
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Northville |
Michigan |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1148 |
| This is a human (analemmatic) sundial built into a grassy landscape. At the center is the Zodiac Walkway with stone slabs labeled with the months of the year, arranged in two vertical columns from January through December. A plaque indicates the user to stand on this central walkway according to the month of the year. An ellipse of hour marks surr... |
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Erie |
Colorado |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1147 |
| Analemmatic human sundial, marked with both standard and daylight saving hours (5am-9pm MDT) arranged on an ellipse determined by the latitude.. The whole sundial is 10 ft (3m) in diameter, surrounded by a gravel moat. The zodiac walkway is encompassed in a circular center sun, with months marked in blue. Vertical sandstone stones at the edge mar... |
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Simsbury |
Connecticut |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1146 |
| Called the Millennium Sundial, this vertical dial is made of wire rods and from a distance is nearly invisible. It declines S-SW and has small hour disks in Roman numerals from 7am to 6pm. The dial also has wire solstice boundaries. This starts to sound like a poorly designed dial, but in fact is a very fine dial, casting its shadow of time onto... |
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Canmore |
Alberta |
Canada |
Vertical Dial |
1145 |
| This 2.13m x 2.13m (7ft x 7ft) vertical sundial is constructed of aluminum with a powder coat presenting a motif of the Three Sisters Mountains (Îyârhe Nakoda, the traditional language of the First Nations Stoney Nakoda, also refers to the peaks as the Three Sisters). The dial declines S 55 deg to the West, resulting in late morning hours and com... |
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Vernon |
British Columbia |
Canada |
Heliochronometer |
1144 |
| This heliochronometer, called a Gard Clock Hybrid Sundial, is a precision instrument constructed by 3D printing. The dial featured in the photos below has a large equatorial ring 7.7 inches (19.5cm) in diameter with an inner geared ring of 144 teeth. The teeth engage a planetary gear system to a secondary minute dial for accurate time reading. It ... |
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Anchorage |
Alaska |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1143 |
| A 10 inch (25cm) wide, cylindrical-segment equatorial dial approximately 8 inches (20cm) high, fabricated from a section of large PVC pipe. The dial face is aluminum sheet bonded to the PVC pipe and marked by photochemical engraving with hour lines showing analemmas to correct for EOT; hour lines are corrected for longitude and show both standard a... |
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Liberty Township |
Ohio |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1142 |
| A stainless steel, vertical south facing dial, declining 15 degrees to the east. The dial is approximately a 6.5 feet (2m) square. Hours are measured VII – XII – V in winter and 8 – 12 – 6 in the summer, telling time in increments of the half-hours. Equinox, summer and winter solstice lines are shown. The gnomon originates from a sun m... |
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Cincinnati |
Ohio |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1141 |
| This is a 5 foot (1.5m) diameter, bronze horizontal dial sitting on a limestone plinth. The dial tells time from V – XII – VII in 15 minute increments. Underneath the style of the gnomon in relief is a sculpture of Hygieia, goddess of health, cleanliness and hygiene. She is emerging from a snake that wraps around the dial face, representing t... |
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Cincinnati |
Ohio |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
1140 |
| The alignment ring of seven sculptures indicates the time of solar noon and date of the solstices and equinoxes. The sculpture is titled “Seven Vessels Ascending/Descending”. The alignment of the seven sculptures is on a 40 feet (12m) circle of grass surrounded by a circular red brick plaza.. In the very center of the circles is a 2-foot (.6m... |
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Cedar Rapids |
Iowa |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1139 |
| A beautiful 6-ft (2m) circular vertical dial, declining to the south-east. At the circle's circumference are hour numbers from 5am to 1pm. Background is white and within the solstice boarders, painted azure blue, showing the time limits from 4:30am to1:30pm. The gnomon is a thin wire rod with a spherical nodus. The dial has white declination li... |
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Labelle |
Quebec |
Canada |
Horizontal Dial |
1138 |
| The dial is a square 1.7m x 1.7m structure in the ground using railroad ties as the perimeter and as the hour lines from 6am to 6pm. Hours are marked in Roman numerals. The style of the gnomon is made out of a portion of a railroad track, supported by odds and ends of railroad ironwork. |
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Everett |
Washington |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1137 |
| A concrete dial in the shape of the state of Washington, about 30 x 50 in (76 x 127 cm). Radiating from the stainless-steel gnomon are 48 hour lines, providing time lines every quarter hour from 6am to 6pm. Hours are Arabic numbers at the end of hour lines that vary in length throughout the state. Galvanized and painted black are markers for the... |
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Mission Viejo |
California |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1136 |
| This steel equatorial dial is about 4-foot (1.2m) in diameter with the equatorial and meridian arcs in the shape of thin crescent moons. The 10-minute time marks are appropriately offset for the dial's longitude about 2.3 degrees (9 minutes) east of the pacific time zone meridian. The offset is marked with "Local Solar Noon".. Arabic numbers mark... |
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Louisville |
Kentucky |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1135 |
| This south-facing reclining dial has a weathered brass plate 13-inches (33cm) in diameter sitting on a cut face of a sculptured sphere approximately 21-inches (53cm) in diameter. The dial consists a series of rings: (1) at center is an eight-pointed compass rose and a decorative outer border of small tulip-like figures.(2) next is the abbreviations... |
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Oak Ridge |
Tennessee |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1134 |
| This vertical dial is set on an 11-foot (3.4m) stand very near the front wall of the Museum. The 18-inch (46cm) dial face is eye-catching with a portrait of Albert Einstein hand engraved into stainless steel. The Equation of Time curve is used symbolically as a wave of light that in dual nature becomes a particle to create the photoelectric effect... |
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Mars Hill |
North Carolina |
USA |
Armillary Sphere |
1133 |
| This simple stainless steel armillary is called the "TimeKeeper Sundial" is approximately 20 inches (51cm) in diameter with meridian circle and equatorial timekeeping circle. The gnomon is a classic arrow rod. The hexagon stainless steel pedestal has six medallions at the top with medial motifs.
From an article in the Citizen-Times (see link),... |
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York |
Pennsylvania |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1132 |
| This analemmatic sundial is in a circular plaza about 20 feet (6m) in diameter. The dial has Arabic numbers 6am to 6pm, centered on 12 noon with no longitude correction (only about 7 minutes of time). The zodiac walkway is unusual in that it reverses the left-right position of June and July, simulating the analemma figure 8 pattern. The adjoinin... |
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Hannover |
Pennsylvania |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1131 |
| This is a "virtual" sundial of a horizontal pole near the roof line casting a shadow onto the curved wall in front of the school building.that faces due south. No hour lines or declination lines have been painted on the wall, but there is a shadow "map" indicating where the nodus shadow is throughout the year (see photo #3). As an educational too... |
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Springfield |
Missouri |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1130 |
| Situated on a peninsula extending into Lake Drummund, this 25-foot (7.6m) double-ring analemmatic (human) sundial is easily seen on Google Earth. The mosaic dial shows both standard (6am-6pm) and daylight savings hours (7am-7pm).
The unusual location and available space inspired Schilling to create a sundial with a ginkgo leaf design, noting that ... |
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Medicine Lodge |
Kansas |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1129 |
| This is an Erickson Monumental Equatorial Sundial. The dial face is made of Elberton Blue Granite with a 3-inch (8 cm) Stainless Steel gnomon resting on a concrete base. The circular dial face is 6 feet (2m) in diameter and 6 inches (15cm) thick. The gnomon casts shadows during the spring and summer on the top face of the granite dial and reads ... |
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Gabarus |
Nova Scotia |
Canada |
Equatorial Dial |
1128 |
| An equatorial sundial of aluminum with stencil-punched hours from 5am to 8pm. No hour marks are used. The sundial works from March 21st until September 21st when the sun is above the celestial equator. The dial was commissioned for the 550th birthday of Nicholas Copernicus (Mikolaj Kopernik) and was developed by Cape Breton's Polish community in... |
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Felton |
California |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1127 |
| This analemmatic sundial is set in a concrete circle about 12 feet (4m) in diameter. It has a plain zodiac walkway with month abbreviations. The hourly numbers are set in an ellipse appropriate for the 37 deg latitude. Unfortunately the dial is in shade during the early morning hours.
Dial dates from the park's construction, opened on 22 Feb ... |
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Fairfield |
Ohio |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1126 |
| This is a 10-foot (3m) equatorial sundial made of steel and painted green. Gold painted balls are located on the ends of the meridian and equatorial arcs. Following tradition, the gnomon is a rod with a decorative arrow and tail painted gold. The base includes a decorated plat holder with eight compass points and azimuth degrees marked in 10 deg... |
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Wabash |
Indiana |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1125 |
| This horizontal bronze dial is approximately 12 inches (30cm) in diameter with a heavy green patina. The gnomon long ago was broken off. The inner chapter ring shows local solar time in half hour increments marked in Roman numerals from 6am to 6pm. The dial is decorated by an hour glass. The dial sets on a square 12x12 in (30x30cm) plinth. The p... |
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Fairfield |
Ohio |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1124 |
| A compound bronze horizontal dial approximately 24in (61cm) in diameter with a second meridian transit gnomon hole to cast a beam of light onto a noon analemma. The outer chapter ring shows Standard Time with Roman numerals, 1 hour marks. The inner chapter ring show Daylight Savings Time in Arabic numerals with 15 minute marks. Note that like most... |
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Newington |
Connecticut |
USA |
Analemmatic Dial |
1123 |
| This is an analemmatic sundial designed by a team of four eighth grade students in 2017. This was a project that incorporated four classes: Geometry, 8th Grade Science unit on Solar System, Aerospace Science unit on air navigation, and Engineering Design. The 8th grade class was split into six teams of about four students each in a competition for ... |
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Sequim |
Washington |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1122 |
| This dial began as a Thewes Sundial with an equatorial arc with cut out hour numbers that illuminate a central plate. This original dial went missing in the 1970's.. But when the new stainless steel sundial with a 150mm radius equatorial arc was finished, it took the Thewes concept into the 21st Century. The equatorial arc not only has the hourly... |
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Springfield |
Illinois |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1121 |
| This is a classic Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) sundial. It is a bronze, horizontal sundial approximately 24 inches (61cm) in diameter, with an ornate design of ovals at the exterior, sloping down to 30 inches in diameter. Hours are marked from 5am to 7pm in Roman numerals. Time is marked in quarter hours. The gnomon is solid with a simple und... |
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Wethersfield |
Connecticut |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1120 |
| A rectangular vertical sundial, 31 x 45 inches (0.8x1.1m), made of Vermont slate. Engraved with Roman hours from 6am-6pm and hour lines with delineation in quarter hours. The lines and letter engravings are painted black. The gnomon is a brass rod, suspended slightly off the noon line with an elegant "S" brass support. The date engraved on the di... |
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Georgetown |
District of Columbia |
USA |
Armillary Sphere |
1119 |
| This is a simple bronze armillary, known as the Rittenhouse Armillary, and is about 2 feet (0.6m) in diameter consisting of a meridian ring, equatorial ring, and zodiac ring aligned with the polar axis. The gnomon is a traditional arrow rod casting its shadow telling local solar time using Roman numerals. Friends of Montrose Park relate its histor... |
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Casper |
Wyoming |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1118 |
| This monumental horizontal dial sculpture, "The Confluence of Space and Time", stands 30 feet (9m) tall with giant hour markers from 10am to 2pm. It features interactive features of a windmill in its interior and illumination by lights through the broken glass panels. The sundial is constructed of stainless steel, stainless steel Mesh, 6,800 lbs 3... |
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Manchester |
California |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1117 |
| This is a double equatorial sundial of stainless steel (slightly burnished to show the shadow without reflections). Each cylinder is approximately 16 inches (40cm) in diameter. with hour lines drawn as analemmas (June to Dec and Dec to June). The gnomon are two pointed steel rods, reading the time and date at the shadow tip. Declination lines are... |
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Waynesville |
North Carolina |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1116 |
| This is a large horizontal sundial 5-feet (1.5m) in diameter with a twist. The dial is made of aluminum and set on a circular concrete dais several inches above ground level. Hour lines of thin aluminum rods extend from 9am to 3pm using Roman numerals. The gnomon is a braced aluminum rod that creates a sleek, modern looking sundial. But the twis... |
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Houston |
Texas |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1115 |
| In the Sharp Family plot is a lovely statute titled Roses of Yesterday of a lady holding wilted roses in one arm and a sundial in the other. The dial itself is circular, approximately 12 inches (30.5cm) in diameter. The hour marks in a narrow chapter ring are Roman Vi to VI, divided into quarter hours. The original gnomon was set to the 6-6 line... |
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Great Falls |
Virginia |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1114 |
| This octagonal horizontal sundial measures 15 inches (380mm). It is made of bronze and given a brown patina with burnished letters, numbers and artwork. The dial has a chapter ring with Roman hours from V to VII delineated on the inner ring by half hours and the outer ring by quarter hours. It has a gnomon gap to accommodate the shadow of a 1/2 ... |
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Union City |
New Jersey |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1113 |
| This beautiful sundial is 4 feet (122cm) sundial and made from two layers of 1.25 inch (3.1cm) thick hardened marble. Arabic hour numbers from 6am to 6pm, letters, and gnomon are 1/4 inch (6.35mm) brushed gold anodized aluminum. The gnomon is shaped as a slanting "P" and to the south of the dial center, the name "Pellarin". The dial sits on a 3-f... |
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Clarksville |
Indiana |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1112 |
| This is a round,George marble sundial 48-inches (122cm) in diameter with a plain triangular gnomon. The chapter ring has Roman hours etched from 5am to 7pm, delineated in quarter hours. The dial sits 8-inches (20cm) above a 60-inch (152cm) wide concrete base. Official town records show that this dial was donated to the town of Clarksville to comme... |
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Ogunquit |
Maine |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1111 |
| This is an elegant commercially made bronze horizontal dial about 18-inch (.46 cm) in diameter. The Chapter Ring has hours from 5am to 7pm, divided in quarter hours. Hours are marked in Roman Numerals from VI to VI. A bird sits profile in the gnomon, filling the space beneath the style. The gnomon foot is accurately placed to a line between VI-... |
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Georgetown |
Ohio |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1110 |
| This is a large commercial bronze horizontal dial set at ground level on a circular concrete pad. The dial is embossed with Roman hours in a chapter ring and delineated for quarter hours. The inscription circles the dial in an outer rim. The gnomon is standard with a bird beneath the style. However the gnomon is set about 2 inches (5cm) north o... |
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Hamilton |
Ohio |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1109 |
| This is one of a series of bronze sundials presented by Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, dedicated to the memory of the Grand Army of the Republic. The dial is 24 inches in diameter, with an ornate design of ovals at the exterior, sloping down to 30 inches in diameter. Hours are marked from 5am to 7pm in Roman numerals with time marked... |
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Rockville |
Maryland |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1108 |
| One of Bill Gottesman's unique-design Renaissance dials of cast and structural bronze with a 27 inch diameter helix with a celestial-north aligned axis. Time is told by a focused beam of light that moves around the helix throughout the day. The light beam is reflected from a long cylindrical unsilvered mirror in a structure that supports the helix.... |
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Early |
Texas |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1107 |
| This is a monumental sundial with a gnomon is 52 feet (16m) long and 24 feet (7.3m) tall at the point. Tall concrete pillars mark the hours from 7am to 5pm in an offset circle 60 feet (18m) in diameter. The 7:00am/5:00pm pillars are 7 feet (2.1m) tall, and stair-step in height 1 foot (0.3m) for each hour until the noon pillar at 12 feet (4m) tall... |
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Ottawa |
Ontario |
Canada |
Vertical Dial |
1106 |
| A 1.2m (47 in) wide by 0.7m (28 in) high vertical sundial that declines 5 degrees to the west of south. Hour lines are longitude-corrected. The dial face was laser cut from a large 3mm (1/8 in) thick plate of steel and powder coated with white paint. The cut-out pieces of the steel sheet were beautifully assembled together and mounted near the fro... |
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Laie |
Hawaii |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
1105 |
| To accommodate Hawaii's low latitude, this is a reclining sundial more than a meter (3 feet) in diameter and stands over 2 meters (6 feet) tall. It is carved from a dark, igneous stone with a bronze conical gnomon and set on bronze legs. The sundial includes a separate, stone-carved legend that includes an explanation of how to correct the gnomon... |
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Naples |
Florida |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
1104 |
| A whimsical equatorial dial set on a pole. The solid dial face has a drawing of canoeists opposite an alligator with its mouth open and.above them is a smiling sun wearing sunglasses. Time on the summer side is from 6:30am to 7:30pm while on the winter side, time is delineated from 7am to 7pm.(but still using daylight saving time). Both sides ha... |
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