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How Globes are Made in 21st Century America
…and how to upcycle them when they're damaged
Replogle Globes is the world's largest manufacturer of globes, and I was shocked to see that they still manufacture them in the United States. The production processes, as you can imagine, are a tad more sophisticated than what we saw in the 1950s British factory.
Manufacturing the hemispheres separately seems a lot less labor-intensive than the, er, "one world" approach we saw in the older video.
By the bye, if you own a modern-day globe and one of the hemispheres becomes damaged, do not throw the whole thing out; there's a perfectly good way to upcycle it. As tinkerer Ben Porter writes, "[My] neighbor was throwing away a perfectly good globe that only had a collapsed southern hemisphere. I looked at the northern hemisphere and, naturally, the first thing I thought was 'Hey, that looks like R2-D2's head!'"
Porter's next course of action:
Images/work by Ben Porter Read how he did it here.
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Interesting how to avoid getting his hands crushed under the press, that worker hadboth hands on a leash! That way he can still hold the paper... Unlike the more common safety measure of having to press 2 button with both hands...
But do the lines match up?! I'm not seeing any real accuracy in the processes in the movie. 'Fudge factor', yeah right.
Have you seen the movie I linked to above?
Soooooo boring compared to the old way of making them.
When I was a kid, we got a tour of the local paper. The whole process of pasting up the pages, photographing them, burning plates from the big negatives and running the hulking, inky press really got to me. Eventually I worked at that paper, and a new crop of cub scouts came through for the same tour, to watch us numbly assemble the pages on our (7 year old) macs in Quark, and then get shot down to the clean plate room where the plates were spat almost directly from the platemaking machine to the web press. Said one ultra-perceptive kid, bubble clearly burst: "Oh. So it's kinda like our printer at home. Just bigger"
Sigh.