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Brass drum orrery made by George Adams in c. 1789. The orrery is a model of the solar system showing planetary motion; orrerys were used from the 17th century as demonstration models and became ...

Loremasters we explore some of hyper technology of the Necrons - the World Engine, Celestial Orrery & the Dolmen Gates.

We aren’t sure how accurate you can get with LEGO, but a building block orrery looks cool, if nothing else. [Marian42] saw one done a few years ago and decided to build a version with a ...

No doubt inspired by classic orreries driven by clockwork, [Marian]’s LEGO Sun-Earth-Moon orrery is instead driven by either hand cranks or by electric motors. The orrery aims to be ...

At five metres in diameter, the Jodrell Bank orrery – a moving, model of the Solar System – is believed to be the largest of its kind in the world and includes a complex system of 52 brass gears that ...

Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, Baron Boyle of Marston (Somerset), Baron of Broghill in Ireland, Knight of the Thistle, was buried on 11th September 1731 in the vault of the Duke of Ormond at the ...

This beautiful model of the solar system is an example of a type of instrument known as an 'orrery'. It is made of wood, brass and ivory with a paper scale which was printed and pasted on the top ...