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Incrediball

Dad, have I died and gone to doggie heaven?

 

 

(Bronze plaque reads:

The "Sphere"

Commissioned in 1966 for the 50th anniversary of the National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa [the building seen in reflection above Dad's centaur-like form].

 

Artist Art Price designed the sphere as a symbolic representation of the activities of NRC, Canada's leading agency for research in science and technology.

 

The highly polished sphere [somewhat scuffed now] was fabricated in four months from 10 gauge 304 stainless steel by Coulter Copper and Brass Limited of Toronto. The sphere is 3.65M [11.975 feet-why not 12?] in diameter, weighs approximately one tonne [1000kg] and is mounted in a 7.9M pool [now filled in with stone].)

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NRC, Ottawa, Ontario

 

516 Clancy 9yrs 25wk

 

Clancy's YEARBOOK 10: www.flickr.com/photos/130722340@N04/albums/72157720201164845

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Uploaded on May 7, 2022
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