Ross McCluney wrote: >....... > The dial is on the University of Texas Pan American campus in Edinburg. It is > a combined solar time and standard time dial, so I thought of calling it the > world's largest standard time dial. Do any of you know of any standard > time dials that are larger, and can you think of any other way to give it a > claim to fame? > > Here are the particulars. The gnomon is a simple, relatively uninspired, > triangular shaped vertical obelisk with an 8" diameter opaque sphere on top. > The center of the sphere is 19.37 ft above the "Plaza of the Sun" surface, > which, for drainage, slopes away from the base of the obelisk 1 ft in 50 ft, > making it a very shallow conical receiving surface. The Plaza is 100 ft in > diameter, 50 ft in radius, which marks the limit of the dial markings, inlayed > metals strips about 1/8" wide set into the concrete plaza floor. There are > solar time hour markings for each solar hour and standard time analemma- > shaped markings for each standard time hour. That's it. >....... >
Dear Ross McCluney, I think there is a large horizontal dial with curves for the equation of time at a financial bank in Munich, Germany. The point where two walls of the building meets is used as the shadow casting device. I have no idea how high this point is, nor do I know how large the dials plane is. But I think Daniel Roth can give more details, so I ask him to do so. Otherwise ask him. E-mail of Daniel : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fer J. de Vries Netherlands.
