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Unisphere – 2
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Queens, NY

  
Photograph by Rajender Krishan – May 14, 2005

The Unisphere is an unofficial symbol of Queens and is one of the few remaining artifacts from the 1964-65 New York World's Fair. This world's largest globe stands at 140 feet high and 120 feet in diameter weighing 700,000 pounds. It was constructed of stainless steel by the United States Steel Corporation and presented to the fair on April 22, 1964.

Three rings circle the globe, representing the orbits of the first American astronaut, the first Russian cosmonaut and the first communications satellite to orbit the Earth.  Since the continents are the heaviest parts of the all-steel sculpture and they aren't evenly distributed, the Unisphere was carefully engineered to account for the unbalanced mass.  

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