Re: Schmoyer Sunquest
Hi gents.
#sundial might seem loosely applied but that yoga pose is called the sundial
apparently. I come looking for photos of UK dials to add to the Register but
have to wade past the yogists and photos of people with their desserts at the
Sundial restaurant Atlanta. It's worth it for the number of unknown dials I
find.
Regards
Ian
Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/ghei36>
From: Dave Bell
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 1:30:06 AM
To: 'Roger'; 'Ian Maddocks'; sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Well, Roger, I like looking at both, sometimes?
Dave :{)
From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Roger
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:38 PM
To: Ian Maddocks ; sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Thanks Ian
It looks like the real McCoy, a well crafted well crafted Schmoyer Sunquest.
I had a look at the Instagram link. The #sundial tag seems to be loosely
applied. What do silly girls in acrobatic poses have to do with sundials?
Regards,
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N 48.669, W 123.403
From: Ian Maddocks<mailto:ian_maddo...@hotmail.com>
Sent: March 19, 2019 1:50 PM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de<mailto:sundial@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest
hi
In case anyone is interested I have just seen a Schmoyer Sunquest pop up on the
Instagram feed for a Minneapolis antique shop
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMcGGClYuA/
Claims to be a Schmoyer made in 1960s
Just one of the things seen whilst trawling
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/
regards
Ian Maddocks
Chester, UK
53°11'50"N 2°52'41"W
---
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Well, Roger, I like looking at both, sometimes?
Dave :{)
From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Roger
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 4:38 PM
To: Ian Maddocks ; sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Thanks Ian
It looks like the real McCoy, a well crafted well crafted Schmoyer Sunquest.
I had a look at the Instagram link. The #sundial tag seems to be loosely
applied. What do silly girls in acrobatic poses have to do with sundials?
Regards,
Roger Bailey
Walking Shadow Designs
N 48.669, W 123.403
From: Ian Maddocks <mailto:ian_maddo...@hotmail.com>
Sent: March 19, 2019 1:50 PM
To: sundial@uni-koeln.de <mailto:sundial@uni-koeln.de>
Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest
hi
In case anyone is interested I have just seen a Schmoyer Sunquest pop up on the
Instagram feed for a Minneapolis antique shop
https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMcGGClYuA/
Claims to be a Schmoyer made in 1960s
Just one of the things seen whilst trawling
https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/
regards
Ian Maddocks
Chester, UK
53°11'50"N 2°52'41"W
---
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Thanks Ian It looks like the real McCoy, a well crafted well crafted Schmoyer Sunquest. I had a look at the Instagram link. The #sundial tag seems to be loosely applied. What do silly girls in acrobatic poses have to do with sundials? Regards, Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 48.669, W 123.403 From: Ian Maddocks Sent: March 19, 2019 1:50 PM To: sundial@uni-koeln.de Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest hi In case anyone is interested I have just seen a Schmoyer Sunquest pop up on the Instagram feed for a Minneapolis antique shop https://www.instagram.com/p/BvMcGGClYuA/ Claims to be a Schmoyer made in 1960s Just one of the things seen whilst trawling https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/sundial/ regards Ian Maddocks Chester, UK 53°11'50"N 2°52'41"W --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Schmoyer Sunquest
Hello all... Ken Clark wrote: (snip) I wrote a brief history about Richard Schmoyer and the "Sunquest" sundial with additional information to Tony Moss and the London Science Museum who requested it. I also sent along information on the "Lyre and Tuning Fork Musical Theme Sundial" that I forgot I had on file. (snip) I also discovered a unique sundial design drawings that he did for someone for a proposed college alumni gift to the music department. It was for a large public sundial with seating around it, which he called, Lyre and Tuning Fork, Musical Theme Sundial, which used the split gnomon. Apparently it never got completed. For more information on Richard Schmoyer's Lyre and Tuning Fork Musical Theme Sundial point your browser at: http://advanceassociates.com/Sundials/Schmoyer_Lyre/ Best wishes, Mac Oglesby -
Re: Schmoyer Sunquest
I wrote a brief history about Richard Schmoyer and the "Sunquest" sundial with additional information to Tony Moss and the London Science Museum who requested it. I also sent along information on the "Lyre and Tuning Fork Musical Theme Sundial" that I forgot I had on file. I did get to know Richard and I have a lot of his corrospondance. A copy of my letter to Tony and the London Science Museum follows below: I hope this helps. Ken Clark Kenneth R. Clark 12/31/02 975 Turnpike Rd. Elizabethtown, PA 17022 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tony Moss and the London Science Museum, The following is a brief history of Richard Schmoyer and the "Sunquest" sundial. I got to know Richard Schmoyer in early 1990 and having been interested in sundials for a while, I decided to see if Richard still lived in Landisville PA as stated in Waugh's book, which was only about 10 miles away. Well he did. He showed me a lot of his sundial books and related items. He communicated with a lot of people over the years and he kept some photo albums of different pictures of sundials that people would send him. He was also a member of the British Sundial Society and we sometimes discuss articles in the Bulletin and the best way to send money in British Sterling. In his office he had a mirror on the window sash and a sundial laid out on the ceiling. On the sides of his house he had two vertical declining dials he made out of teak wood and one on the copula of his garden shed, as well as a "Sunquest" sundial on a tree stump in his yard. He gave me a set of old 40" iron wagon wheels that he was thinking of some day making a sundial out of but never did. He did make a scale model of it with which had the slit gnomon. Someday I will complete the dial. Richard L. Schmoyer at age 82 died Thursday May 29, 1997 after a long illness. Richard was a graduate of Lehigh University, a mechanical engineer, and also a charter member of the North American Sundial Society. Among dialist, he is probably best known as the designer of the "Sunquest" dial, which he had made and sold from his home through mail order. The dial was featured in the Amateur Scientist Dept. of the Scientific American magazine (October 1959). After his death I received a lot of his corrospondance in a box left over from the public sale, which the family has given me, which chronicles the history of the "Sunquest". Schmoyer viewed the "Sunquest" as a home-hobby-part-time project on and off from about 1958 until the mid 70's because of the Scientific American article. He started the duplication of aluminum castings for others interested in building one, and resulted in over 100 sets which he prepared along with fasteners, parts, drawings and instructions for home craftsmen, astronomy clubs, science projects, and others. During the same period He built and sold about 75 completely finished and assembled sundials. He also had three done in bronze. Because of continued response from people and because of Waugh's book he renewed the project in 1983 for the last time and produced about 50 more castings and sold them in kit form again. Albert Waugh, like many saw the article in Scientific American and ordered a kit in 1960. Later he saw in Natural History Magazine that it was also available fully finished and was able to return it and ordered two completely finished dials. They communicated by mail and Albert offered to put a picture of the "Sunquest" in the sundial book he was working on then. I also discovered a unique sundial design drawings that he did for someone for a proposed college alumni gift to the music department. It was for a large public sundial with seating around it, which he called, Lyre and Tuning Fork, Musical Theme Sundial, which used the split gnomon. Apparently it never got completed. Richard Schmoyer's sundial appeared in numeralist articles and books over the years including F.W. Cousins, Sundials, 1970. He enjoyed talking about sundials and contributed to the public's interest in sundials. I think it's great of Tony Moss to donate the Sunquest sundial to the London Science Museum. I talked to Richard Schmoyer's daughter, Laurel Browing, and she is honored. Right now she tells me the sundial business has been on hold because they have been traveling and she does have her income tax business also. The foundry were the dials were cast, has changed hands and the same people are not involved in doing the accurate work that is needed. At one time she was looking for a company to take over the manufacturing because she does not have the expertise and time to devote to it full time. She is still open to suggestions in making the "Sunquest" available to the public. She can be reached at: Laurel Browning 17100 White Dove Lane SE Oldtown, Maryland 21555 301-478-5646 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope this is helpful. I was relatively n
Re: Schmoyer Sunquest
I am trying to obtain some historical information on the Schmoyer Sunquest sundial; specifically when it was first made and marketed. Waugh's book (1973) discusses the dial, but gives no dates. Apparantly Frank Cousin's book (1968) mentions it, but I do not have a copy. I was hoping someone on the list might be able to tell me what it says. I have a drawing that was sent out with the recastings sold at the NASS convention in 1999 dated 1958, but that does not tell me when the dials became available publicly. Can any one contribute to this? Cousin's book has a picture of the Sunquest and a (greatly reduced) copy of a working drawing by Schmoyer (from a patent?) which is dated 11-15-58. Cousins is describing dials with a built-in EOT correction such as Oliver's 1892 dial. He continues "This fruitful idea reaches it culmination in the elegant design of Mr Richard L. Schmoyer...in which the style has a slot cut for both the summer and winter curve of the true anelemma...etc. etc." p. 189 The Scientic American article was included in the Amateur Scientist section of the October, 1959 issue. The article quotes a letter from Schmoyer in which, after describing why folks like us bother with accurate sundials, Schmoyer says "These inducements led me to design a sundial last year which has become a continuing source of pleasure both to me and to my neighbours..."(pp. 193-4). At the end of the article the editor notes "Schmoyer advises that the patterns used in making the parts for his dial, including the gnomon, have been preserved. He has volunteered to have duplicate casting made by the local foundry upon request by those who wish to purchase a ready-made set. His address is Landisville, Pa." (p. 198) As the owner of a (nearly finished!) version of the recent castings made by his daughter Laurel Brown (if memory serves me), I must endorse Schmoyer's comment about the dial being a continuing source of pleasure. Peter Mayer -
RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
Those of you who are not familiar with the beautiful Schmoyer Sunquest should see this NASS page: http://sundials.org/links/local/schmoyer/schmoyer.htm Bob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 12:10 PM To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest Dear Dialist, I am trying to obtain some historical information on the Schmoyer Sunquest sundial; specifically when it was first made and marketed. Waugh's book (1973) discusses the dial, but gives no dates. Apparantly Frank Cousin's book (1968) mentions it, but I do not have a copy. I was hoping someone on the list might be able to tell me what it says. I have a drawing that was sent out with the recastings sold at the NASS convention in 1999 dated 1958, but that does not tell me when the dials became available publicly. Can any one contribute to this? Bill Gottesman - -
RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
I have the same article (copy) and a copy of the Scientific American in which it appeared (last page missing). SA didn't mention its month/year on the pages, but it was under the heading of "The Amateur Scientist", the subtitle is: "Atransistorized drive for a telescope and a sundial that keeps accurate time". The article started on page 185 and the last page I have is 197, which is not the last one. Maybe this helps when digging in your index. Thibaud Chabot At 20:17 19-04-2004, Roger Bailey wrote: One article is "A Sundial that Keeps Clock Time" an excellent description of the Schmoyer sundial. This is one of the things that got me interested in sundials. The date of the original Scientific American article is not given and I cannot find it in my index but I can send you a scanned copy by email if you wish. Cheers, Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 48.6 W 123.4 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 19, 2004 9:10 AM To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest Dear Dialist, I am trying to obtain some historical information on the Schmoyer Sunquest sundial; specifically when it was first made and marketed. Waugh's book (1973) discusses the dial, but gives no dates. Apparantly Frank Cousin's book (1968) mentions it, but I do not have a copy. I was hoping someone on the list might be able to tell me what it says. I have a drawing that was sent out with the recastings sold at the NASS convention in 1999 dated 1958, but that does not tell me when the dials became available publicly. Can any one contribute to this? Bill Gottesman - - - Th. Taudin Chabot, home email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
RE: Schmoyer Sunquest
I have a copy of Scientific American's "Book of Projects for the Amateur Scientist" published in 1960. It reprints Amateur Scientist articles by C. L. Strong between 1952 and 1960. One article is "A Sundial that Keeps Clock Time" an excellent description of the Schmoyer sundial. This is one of the things that got me interested in sundials. The date of the original Scientific American article is not given and I cannot find it in my index but I can send you a scanned copy by email if you wish. Cheers, Roger Bailey Walking Shadow Designs N 48.6 W 123.4 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 19, 2004 9:10 AM To: sundial@rrz.uni-koeln.de Subject: Schmoyer Sunquest Dear Dialist, I am trying to obtain some historical information on the Schmoyer Sunquest sundial; specifically when it was first made and marketed. Waugh's book (1973) discusses the dial, but gives no dates. Apparantly Frank Cousin's book (1968) mentions it, but I do not have a copy. I was hoping someone on the list might be able to tell me what it says. I have a drawing that was sent out with the recastings sold at the NASS convention in 1999 dated 1958, but that does not tell me when the dials became available publicly. Can any one contribute to this? Bill Gottesman - -
Re: Schmoyer "Sunquest" Dial Kit
Laurel Browning (Richard's daughter): [EMAIL PROTECTED] They are fun to do, but don't get in a hurry !! Charlie (865) 354-1993
