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Dodge City |
Kansas |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
39 |
| Two horizontal dials side by side, one for Central Standard Time and one for Mountain Standard Time. The CST dial shows hour lines for 7 AM to 7 PM, the MST dial shows 6 AM through 6 PM. Corrected for longitude. Each dial is approximately 13 meters in diameter. In front of the dials is a large concrete plaque with the equation of time and anal... |
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Bloomington |
Indiana |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
38 |
| A small horizontal dial, about 18 inches in diameter. The dial plate is tilted 2 deg to the horizon to allow water run-off. However, more unusual is the base that contains a hand crank connected to a scalloped drum that tilts the entire dial to adjust for the Equation of Time. The drum is rotated to the current date and the drum edge pushes a ca... |
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Orlando |
Florida |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
37 |
| This plain dial formed on a concrete base has an elegant gnomon, designed with an interior curve and oval. But alas, don't go to Florida to find it. Sometime in 2013 as Harcourt closed its Florida office, the new tenet had no use for the sundial and had it scheduled for demolition.
In the end, the sundial was not destroyed and the gnomon was tak... |
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Lake Wales |
Florida |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
36 |
| Beautiful vertical dial, approx 12x6 foot of Georgia marble with a brass gnomon approx 5 foot long. Declination lines present. Hour & half hour lines with hours in Roman numerals. Sunburst pattern above gnomon. From the Guidebook, published by the Garden: 'The famous sundial carved on the south wall of the Tower indicates the latitude and longitu... |
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Swarthmore |
Pennsylvania |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
35 |
| Modern design for a vertical dial declining 20.5 deg east on a stone block wall. The gnomon is a right-angled sheet of bronze, casting shadows onto granite hour marks from 6am to 4pm. The dial was designed by Marti Cowan using Waugh's formulae for vertical dials. Frederick Orthlieb, professor and chair of the Dept of Engineering at Swarthmore "h... |
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Washington |
District of Columbia |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
34 |
| A cathedral landmark. 6 foot rectangular crypt with a 2 foot circular horizontal dial in bronze. Adjoining the dial is a cross noon marker that casts its shadow onto the crypt with major Christian holidays marked through the year. Gnomon has a folded shape of 2 cm width but the hour lines form only one dial center although the space at noon gap is ... |
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New Haven |
Connecticut |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
30 |
| Vertical dial on Sterling Library. Rectangular stone with hour lines and Arabic numbers. Gnomon is a plain rod emanating from a sunburst. Stonework shows it to be built into the wall of the library. |
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Mystic |
Connecticut |
USA |
Armillary Sphere |
29 |
| This armillary dial with a sailing ship weather vane is on the cover photo of Albert Waugh's book "Sundials - Their Theory and Construction" (paperback edition). The dial sits atop a short stone platform outside of the Treworgy Planetarium, on the grounds of the Mystic Seaport Museum in Mystic, CT. To correct solar time to clock time, the dial has... |
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Hartford |
Connecticut |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
28 |
| A bronze equatorial dial presented to the college as a gift from the class of 1889. For its age, it is in remarkably good condition. The 3 foot wide by 2 foot tall half cylinder is engraved with both hour and declination lines. At the noon-equinox point of the dial face a perpendicular pole rises to the centerline of the cylinder and supports a N... |
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Hartford |
Connecticut |
USA |
Polyhedral Dial |
27 |
| This is an 18th century polyhedral dial (dodecahedron). The dial was originally located at The Abbey, Storrington, Sussex, England. Carved stone with ten dials on a dodecahedral, some sunken, some planar. Pillar is about 12 ft. high. |
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Cincinnati |
Ohio |
USA |
Armillary Sphere |
26 |
| This is an unusual armillary sphere without the standard gnomon rod, allowing the dial to be adjusted easily to tell civil time. As generally expected of an armillary or equatorial sundial, there is an equatorial time ring (16 inches in diameter) with engraved hourly time marks fastened to a meridian ring. But for this dial the equatorial and mer... |
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Bloomfield |
Connecticut |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
25 |
| Vertical dial on an eight ton granite cube, 4 foot (1,2m) on a side. Three vertical dials carved into the east, south and west sides. All three gnomons are missing A similar CIGNA cube dial is in Los Angeles, Union Square. Both dials owned by CIGNA Insurance Co. |
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Denver |
Colorado |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
24 |
| Large Erickson equatorial monument dial. It consists of a disc of pink granite about 6 feet in diameter and 6 inches thick, tilted on edge to align with the earth's equator. The gnomon is a stainless steel rod approximately 3 inches in diameter, piercing the disc at 90 degrees. It supports the disc from below, and protrudes about 2-3 feet abov... |
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Tempe |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
23 |
| A horizontal dial from Picture Rock Sandstone with 24k gold-plated inlaid brass fittings, 25 inches wide by 36 inches long, with gnomon 12.5 inches high. Gnomon is 1.5 inches thick. Total sundial weight 110 lbs.
Time is marked in 10 minute intervals. Has Equation of Time and moonlight reading time correction table. Has the time and direction of ... |
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Arvada |
Colorado |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
22 |
| A large horizontal dial of brick and stone with a formed structural steel gnomon in the form of a modern sculpture. Roman numeral hour marks doe DST are on raised brick pillars. |
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Colma |
California |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
21 |
| This large ground-level horizontal dial is 40 ft. diameter. Formerly a floral dial with a cypress tree as gnomon and hour lines crafted out of plants such as santilina shrubs. During the 1960's the dial was changed to concrete and aluminum. Now approaching 2020, the concrete dial has a brick surround. Time is marked by large Roman numerals and h... |
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San Francisco |
California |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
20 |
| Known as the "Navigators' Dial", this sundial is dedicated to three early explorers of the California coast. The dial itself is a sliced bronze globe of the earth sitting on the back of a tortoise. Overall, the globe hemisphere is about 2 1/2 feet in diameter, showing the world in relief centered on California. The flat face of the hemisphere is... |
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San Diego |
California |
USA |
Vertical Dial |
19 |
| Above the southwest entrance of the Chemistry-Geology Building is a vertical declining dial built by Richard L. Threet in 1979. The dial uses thin aluminum tubing as a gnomon to cast shadows on a ring of hour and half hour lines approximately 9 feet in diameter. The lines were originally painted black on the white concrete wall with only the 9 am... |
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Riverside |
California |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
18 |
| An equatorial dial 47 inches in diameter made of stainless steel. It sits upon four sleek pillars setting on a concrete rise. The gnomon rod has a round disk with a hole to act as a nodus. The dial equatorial band has solstice and equinox lines, as well as a line showing the declination of the sun marked with by months and zodiac signs. Hour l... |
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Berkeley |
California |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
16 |
| A classic horizontal dial 16 inch diameter (41cm) made of bronze. Gnomon is 8 in. (29cm) long, 5 in. (13cm)high. Donated in 1915 by Class of 1877. Nicely engraved Roman hour numerals and delineated every 5 minutes. On the dial face is an Equation of Time table by date. The dial sits atop a marble pedestal, 4 foot (1.2m) high. |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
14 |
| A 25 inch circular engraved horizontal dial in a large irregular stone. Surrounding the dial on the stone are zodiacal signs and a beautiful engraved drawing of the surrounding mountains. The designer, John Carmichael, calls these dials "horizontal string heliochronometers" since the gnomon is a brass cable held very straight under tension from a... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
12 |
| This concrete and adobe brick horizontal dial is approximately 8 1/2 feet in diameter with a triangular gnomon 25 x 32 inches. This is a large, but very plain sundial except for the shiny chrome plated gnomon. It lacks numerals, but has hour points and shows the cardinal points. The dial is corrected for longitude. The pedestal is missing some b... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Sun Alignment |
11 |
| A "Stonehenge" or sun circle dial designed by Chris Tanz, Susan Holman, Paul Edwards and with the help of Will Grundy and sponsored by the Pima County Flood Control and Transportation Dept. The structure uses a broken circle of walls to create designs made of light based on the movement of the sun. The circle, 50 feet in diameter with 8 foot walls... |
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Ottawa |
Ontario |
Canada |
Horizontal Dial |
10 |
| A bronze 12 inch diameter horizontal dial with hour lines from 4 AM to 8 PM and engraved Roman hour numerals and compass rose. This restoration was donated by Thomas Ritchie who remembered from his youth that the original dial was accidentally destroyed during the construction of the Parliament Library in 1872. The restored dial was unveiled May 19... |
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Sun City |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
8 |
| A monumental horizontal dial in a gravel rock garden. Gnomon is 22 feet high, 40 feet long built from a structural steel "I" beam 64 feet long. Gnomon is supported by three concrete triangular legs and is encased in concrete with four shadow-casting style edges. A circular concrete walkway under the gnomon has painted Roman numeral hour markers.
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Phoenix |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
7 |
| This large ground-level horizontal dial designed by Charles Keener. The dial is a circular concrete slab 62 in.(1.6m) in diameter and 8 in.(200cm) thick. The gnomon is 30 in. (762 cm) high, with the shadow casting style 55 in (1.4m) long. The dial has Roman numerals. Unfortunately, the 6AM and 8AM numerals are missing. The dial in a small square... |
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Westbury |
New York |
USA |
Polyhedral Dial |
5 |
| An old polyhedral dial set atop a tall stone column on the grounds of Old Westbury Gardens.
Old Westbury Gardens is the former estate of John Shaffer Phipps, heir to a U.S. Steel fortune. Built in 1906, this garden is an example of period landscape design, with formal gardens and landscaped grounds on a 200 acre site. The gardens and mansion are... |
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Tucson |
Arizona |
USA |
Equatorial Dial |
4 |
| A bronze equatorial dial approximately 2 ft. in diameter designed by R. Newton Mayall. Mayall stated, "When I was asked to design the sundial in front of the Museum at Kitt Peak I was more than pleased, for it gave me a chance to work a semblance of astronomy into it. The design reflects the great telescope nearby, with its base and fork type mount... |
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Flagstaff |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
2 |
| Small bronze horizontal dial with a coarse chapter ring and Roman hour numerals. The gnomon is done as a gryphin. It was a gift from the observatory staff to Dr. Lowell. In a thank you note to his staff, Lowell stated, "Nothing could have pleased me more than that Sundial clothed with its mountain cloak, symbolic of when the sun always shines. ... |
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Carefree |
Arizona |
USA |
Horizontal Dial |
1 |
| A 90 ft. diameter horizontal dial with a large reflecting pool beneath the gnomon designed by architect Joe Wong and solar engineer John Yellott. The dial is constructed using a steel frame and covered in anodized copper. The hour markers are 4 ft. diameter concrete circles. The dial is designed to show solar time corrected for the time zone offse... |
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