Fitz Globe

Ellen Eliza Fitz (b. 1836)
Fitz's double horizon ring globe
[Manufactured by Ginn
Brothers], ca. 1877
Reverse of globe
Purchase by Shirley Phillips
Geography & Map Division (110.12a)

Ellen Eliza Fitz, an American working in Canada as a governess, obtained a patent for an invention to mount globes in 1875. Her innovation mounted the earth in order to show the position of the sun and the length of days, nights, and twilight for the entire year. This globe is mounted and operated as Fitz describes in her Hand-book of the Terrestrial Globe; or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of Mounting and Operating Globes, Designed for the Use of Families, Schools and Academies, 1876.

Hand-book of the Terrestrial Globe; or, Guide to Fitz's New Method of Mounting and Operating Globes. . .
Boston: Ginn & Heath, 1876
Geography & Map Division
Copyright deposit (110.12b)