Equipment enhancements include: One giant leap from 4K to 8K resolution — A brand new Sony projection system will utilize 10 projectors to create a seamless, synchronized True8K high resolution image— at least 8, pixels across every full degree arc on the dome. Crisp, bright stars will now pop against a rich, dark night sky.
This new Pierce Family Dome at Buhl Planetarium will provide a new canvas for the cosmos, now revealed in breathtaking True8K projection. Buhl Planetarium visitors will be able to travel to other stars and even exoplanets and fly through 3D digital nebulae based on volumetric data. Buhl Planetarium will now provide assistive listening devices, as well as live-time closed captioning glasses that convert speech to scrolling text.
Handheld star globes will provide tactile representations of the night sky, featuring stars and constellations in raised relief. Visitors will soar from orbit into strikingly realistic planetary surfaces during live presentations and fly into valleys or through mountain ranges on the Earth, Moon, Mars, or any planet or moon in the Solar System, taking colorful geological journeys based on real data.
Interactive voting system — Visitors can choose their own adventure through space or test their knowledge of space trivia with a new wireless, handheld, interactive voting system. Space news — Hungry for the latest space news? Experiences for you! Explore what the sky has in store for us with our new Astronomical Calendar and Star Chart Stargazers of all ages: catch a planetarium show to journey through space and time, and discover what it takes to be an astronaut! Catch daily matinees or evening laser shows and get ready for awesome 3D atmospheric effects!
Learn about globular clusters, nebulas, and planets when you see them with your own eyes. Observatory to get an up-close look at amazing celestial objects. These men built Fort George for the crown. The French soon overwhelmed them and established their own encampment, Fort Duquesne. With the land now securely held by the British, settlers moved to the area.
They were mostly farmers, and since travel over the Allegheny Mountains was difficult, these first inhabitants of Pittsburgh became self-sufficient, learning to make their own goods rather than waiting for them to be shipped over the mountains.
By the s, inhabitants occupied the area. Among them were blacksmiths, shoemakers, tanners, brewers, cabinetmakers, tinsmiths and other craftsmen. The industrious residents became so successful, they experienced an over abundance of grain, which they turned into whiskey.
In , now President Washington sent nearly 13, militia men to quell the uprising, which became known as the Whiskey Rebellion. In , Robert Fulton launched the first steamboat, the New Orleans. Built in Pittsburgh, it navigated the waters between New Orleans and Natchez.
In addition to its navigable rivers, Pittsburgh has been blessed with a wealth of natural resources such as coal, oil, limestone, and natural gas. During the War of , the demand for iron skyrocketed.
Foundries, mills, and forges dotted the land along the rivers, and workers flocked to the area to work in them. In , Pittsburgh incorporated as a city. In , the Pennsylvania Railroad opened, making travel to the area more convenient.
The Civil War boosted the city's economy with increased iron and armament demand. With his introduction of the Bessemer steel making process, Scottish immigrant Andrew Carnegie, completed his rise from obscurity to become the richest man in the world.
Carnegie began steel production in Henry Clay Frick , grandson of western Pennsylvania whiskey distillers, made his fortune building and operating beehive coking ovens where coal was turned into coke, a necessary raw material in steel making. Soon, the two men came together to form the Carnegie Steel Co. The history of America's labor union movement added some dark days during the Homestead Steel Strike and subsequent armed conflict of the Battle of Homestead.
From these dark days, though, grew modern labor practices and laws to protect workers. While the riverfront steel mills of the Mon Valley are mostly gone now, the generosity of industrial giants like Carnegie and Frick, food manufacturer H.
What remained are the Frick family home, known as Clayton , as well as a masterful art collection. Up through the mids, Pittsburgh was the nation's eighth-largest city, accounting for nearly half of national steel output. The city's population swelled to over a half million with European immigration via Ellis Island. Pittsburgh's patchwork of neighborhoods still retains an ethnic character reflecting the city's immigrant history. Even though Pittsburgh faced rough times in the s and 80s when steel production all but disappeared from its landscape, it has since re-invented itself as a hub for education , medicine , small manufacturing and research.
Of course, having extremely successful sports teams has enhanced the city's reputation.
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