Spaceship Earth - Epcot, Walt Disney World

"Welcome aboard Spaceship Earth. Journey with us now to the dawn of recorded time as we explore the amazing story of human communication."  I believe this could be a challenging and educationally rewarding build as you construct the history of communication in scenes spiraling to the top of a real geodesic sphere.

Includes the history of communication in scenes from the attraction...

• Loading area
  
• Cave drawings
  
• Young Egyptian pounding reeds flat / papyrus
  
• Phoenician trade and communication – boat scene
  
• Burning and destruction of the Library of Alexandria
  
• Jewish & Islamic scholars preserving recorded information
  
• Sleeping Monk
  
• Gutenberg and the first movable-type printing press
  
• Michelangelo painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel 
  
• Telephone switchboard
  
• Mainframe computer
  
• Building home computers in a garage
  
• Earth
  

Features

• History of communication scenes rotate inside the geodesic sphere.
  
• Hand crank can be easily removed and can also be replaced with a medium Power Fuctions motor.
  
• Class 2 geodesic sphere, just like the real thing!
  
• Made up of hexagons and pentagons, the exterior could easily be built flat with 1:1 scale drawing/instructions and then connected into a sphere.
  
• Model is free standing and very solid on it's three prototypical legs.
  

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