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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14047, 29 April 1909, Page 6

way. •"■■:,:'-:¥rl/,& Some ingenious contrivances ha«j been recently set up at Wainoni Park, Nf«' Brighton, by Professor Biekerton, Wg which he proposes to demonstrate M"> working of the solar system. To show the movements of the entire solar system by mechanical means at once suggests » very complicated piece of mechanism, ana in this respect the Orrery lives up to expectations (says the Lyttelton Times). » contains 500 ' cogwheels, and shows tne motions of the various bodies of the «« verse in their travels round the sun. The speeds of the planets are accurate » proportion, and in every case all . . known attendant moons are shown. ,«» addition, the machine has had addea j» it a representation of the ecliptic i;'* the shrns of. the zodiac shown. ■•, mOrrery has been placed with the lowing, which depicts the path of the earth ana its moon about the sun. It » « 1- *■.: earth has been taken from the urre j and shown separately. The two piet« of machinery have been housed in - Pike, and there also Professor BicMtw has placed his suspended earth «*;• ; which shows by natural causes th;' m . 4, xnent of the earth along its «hp"w • ~ also the procession of the :ino tf, is intended to show the three «xW«»« the large schools in the district. . s