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	New York 1939-1940
		It included the Perisphere, a 200 foot spherical exhibit building, the Trylon, a 700 foot tall three sided obelisk, and the Helicline, a 950 foot circular ramp which connected the two and allowed visitors to exit.
		To enter the Perisphere, visitors went up a huge, custom made escalator from the base of the Trylon into the center of the Perisphere, where they would stand on two levels of rotating platforms, which moved around the central display, called "Democracity", designed by Henry Dreyfuss, a well known industrial designer.
		The Trylon and Perisphere did not have an impact as lasting as the Eiffel tower, as they were demolished after the fair had closed.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1939nyci.htm (932 words)

	New York World Fair Spoons
		The Trylon and Perisphere were designed by the architectural firm of Harrison and Foulihoux and reflected the emphasis on purity embodied by industrial designers of the day.
		From the Trylon visitors were directed into the Perisphere in order to view "a planned urban and exurban complex of the future," a diorama which filled the floor of the building, entitled Democracity.
		The bowl front is plain and round (Perisphere) and the two objects represented the fair to the world.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Rue/1975/nywf.html (1161 words)

	Heroes of the Golden Age
		Later in the war, as the Axis powers' sphere of influence dwindled, so did the barrier's effect but by the time the Allied commanders deemed it safe to allow metahuman operatives onto the front lines it was a moot point, the war was already won.
		The Perisphere was a 200-foot-diameter hollow sphere that was tailored to the All-Stars' specifications by government engineers.
		Next to the Perisphere the 610-foot Trylon, also built for the fair, was altered to house the Squadron's aircraft: the All-Star Special - a modified Curtiss XP-55 Ascender with Star-rocket racer motor (designed by Squadron member Stripesy).
	www.karridian.net /jsa_ga.html (817 words)

	such much media :: 1939 \| new york :: the perisphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trylon and Perisphere were the architectonical marks of this world exposition.
		The diameter of the Perisphere was 200 feet (61 metres).
		The Perisphere contained the exhibition "Democracity", a model of an "ideal" city of the year 2039 by the american architect Henry Dreyfuss.
	www.suchmuchmedia.com /e/wfs/1939_b2.htm (101 words)

	The Big Apple: Trylon and Perisphere (1939); Unisphere (1964)
		The Trylon and Perisphere were built for the 1939-40 World’s Fair.
		The conclusion will be that political and economic peace can only come to mankind as it recognizes this great, this revolutionary, change in the pattern of life, this absolute dependence of all groups and classes, trades and countries in modern society on each other.
		Whalen said that preliminary foundation work for the Perisphere and Trylon was expected to begin in May.
	barrypopik.com /article/175/trylon-and-perisphere-1939-unisphere-1964 (646 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Yesterday's America of Tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		...The first thing one saw as one came down the boardwalk was the Fair's dominating symbol, the Trylon and Perisphere, the former a triangular pointed tower 610-feet high, the latter a gigantic globe the size of a city block, both gleaming white during the day and illuminated at night by blue, yellow, and pink floodlights...
		...The Trylon and Perisphere theme center asserted a competing vision, one buoyed up on the wave of optimism generated by the 19th-century movement for progressive reform and reinforced by the modernist movement in the arts...
		...APART from everything else, the Trylon and Perisphere were of course also male and female symbols, and the designers chose to have their conception of the "World of Tomorrow" gestate, so to speak, within the female globe...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V80I1P64-1.htm (3259 words)

	The last great Fair by Jeffrey Hart
		The modernism of the Trylon and Perisphere came from Europe, and was part of an aesthetics of radical simplification.
		Of course, always present in the minds of modern designers was the Eiffel Tower, immensely controversial in Parisian circles when it was built, an aggressive symbol of modernity and the machine, its metallic simplicity an insult to the winding cobblestone streets and mansard roofs of old Paris.
		nside the Perisphere, the planners and designers had crystallized their own vision, Democracity, a version of the future intended as a counter-statement to the regimes that had emerged in Russia and Germany.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/23/jan05/worldsfair.htm (2711 words)

	Touring the Future
		The 700-foot Trylon and 200-foot Perisphere were connected by a giant ramp called the Helicline, which led visitors back to the grounds once they had visited the structures.
		From the Trylon visitors were directed into the Perisphere in order to view what Stanley Applebaum calls "a planned urban and exurban complex of the future," a diorama which filled the floor of the building, entitled Democracity.
		While the Trylon and Perisphere were the most recognizeable icons of the fair, the commercial and industrial buildings were the largest and the greatest in number; without question they covered most of the fair’s grounds.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~1930s/DISPLAY/39wf/taketour.htm (4280 words)

	1939 World's Fair
		The front features the Trylon and Perisphere, and the back is engraved, with a space to put an initial or two.
		It is in absolutely perfect condition, and has the Trylon and Perisphere on one side, and the Glass Center on the other.
		The front shows George Washington on a balcony overlooking the Fair, with the Trylon, Perisphere and reflecting pool in the background.
	www.msjudith.net /wf/wf2.html (1248 words)

	The Worlds Fair and Exposition Information and Reference Guide
		The Perisphere was the only structure on the grounds that had floodlights.
		Was the tallest structure on the grounds and used as an antenna for television and radio signals.
		The Trylon and Perisphere were connected by a giant ramp called the Helicline.
	www.earthstation9.com /1939_new2.htm (1340 words)

	Encyclopedia: Perisphere
		A trilon is a box in the shape of an equilateral-triangular right prism that is occasionally used on certain game shows to hide information until needed.
		A diorama is a partially three dimensional model of a landscape typically showing historical events, nature scenes, cityscapes, etc....
		The concept of the Perisphere was revisited in the later 1964/1965 New York World's Fair with the Unisphere, as well as with Spaceship Earth at Epcot in Walt Disney World.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Perisphere (397 words)

	The 1939 New York World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This omission was noticed (repeatedly) when the fair opened in 1939, and by the 1940 season of the fair churches had magically appeared in the Futurama.
		You left the Perisphere by walking down the Helicline, a long ramp that snaked around the dome.
		The Trylon and Perisphere, painted white and lit brightly at night, were the visual icons of this world's fair, appearing everywhere you went in New York.
	park.org /Pavilions/WorldExpositions/new_york.html (512 words)

	ArtsNet Minnesota: Designing Spaces and Places (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This bronze sundial is a model for a larger sculpture that Paul Manship was commissioned to make for the 1939 World's Fair in New York.
		Manship knew the theme of the fair was "Fair of the Future." He knew his sculpture would be outdoors, close to the fair's center, near a giant globe and pointed tower called the Perisphere and Trylon.
		Manship wrote, "The Perisphere and Trylon at the World's Fair suggests to me measurements of time and space, so my sundial.
	www.artsconnected.org /artsnetmn/SPACES/sundial/sundial1.html (174 words)

	Tour of the 1939 New York World's Fair - Theme
		The Trylon, a three-sided pylon, stood 610 feet high and its companion, the Perisphere, measured 185 feet in diameter.
		The Trylon and Perisphere were constructed with 2,000 cubic yards of concrete and reinforced steel and 3,000 tons of structural steel resting on more than 1,000 pilings of Douglas fir creosoted for durability.
		Inside the Perisphere was the "Democracy” exhibit, a huge model of "The City of the Future” which would house more than 1,000,000 people.
	www.pmphoto.to /WorldsFairTour/Theme/Theme.htm (491 words)

	The Fredösphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		I wear it on a silver chain as a necklace along with a silver cross....The two gleaming structures were of course male and female symbols.
		Clearly its purpose is to signal that the visit to the Perisphere is a religious event.
		I'm even getting tired of laughing at these outdated visions of the future, even though their predictions were so bad they failed to predict obvious stuff like this just six years away.
	home.comcast.net /~fred_himebaugh/2005/01/hymn-to-1939-worlds-fair.html (642 words)

	Perisphere & Trylon - SkyscraperPage.com
		Inside the spherical Perisphere was an exhibition called "Democracity", an utopian view of a future city.
		Both Perisphere and Trylon were later demolished and melted down to make weapons during World War II.
		The area once occupied by the Perisphere and Trylon is now occupied by the Unisphere, a giant globe that was the 1964 Fair's centerpiece.
	www.skyscraperpage.com /cities?buildingID=3889 (124 words)

	The 1939 New York World's Fair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Equally important as the Perisphere itself, though, is the attraction found inside it.
		Inside the Perisphere was one of the most popular events of the Fair.
		Crowds would wait hours to ride on a ride called that described a "Democracity" of the future.Inside the enormous grandeur of the Perisphere was a long, educational ride of the type that might be found today at an attraction like Epcot Center.
	www.thesacksfamily.com /39fair.htm (2448 words)

	1939 New York World's Fair Lives on Through Collectibles
		Visitors arrived by elevated and when they stepped out of the train there was the Trylon and Perisphere, the abstract symbols of the World of Tomorrow.
		The 700-foot-tall truncated needle-shaped Trylon and 200-foot-diameter Perisphere, joined by the Helicline, a long curving ramp, and symbolizing the linking of the past, the present and the future, became the centerpiece of the World of Tomorrow.
		The Trylon and Perisphere, the Fair's symbols, were dead white, the immediate surrounding area, off white.
	www.bobbrooke.com /worldsfair1939.htm (1654 words)

	Perisphere (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		El Trilon y el Perisphere eran las estructuras centrales de la feria del mundo de Nueva York de 1939-1940.
		El Perisphere era una enorme esfera que contuvo la exposición "el mundo de la man¢ana".
		El concepto del Perisphere fue revisitado en el mundo más último 1964 de Nueva York favorablemente con el Unisphere, tan bien como con tierra de la nave espacial en Epcot en el mundo de Walt Disney.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/pe/Perisphere.htm (107 words)

	1939 NY World's Fair Jewelry Collectibles
		The bracelet shows loss of plate on several of the disks and the backs are worn, probably indicating that it was worn by its previous owner.
		Orange and blue and white picture of the Trylon and Perisphere appear on this ring.
		Gold colored tie-bar has a raised image of the Trylon and Perisphere cut from a green stone and set in a rectangular frame.
	www.the-forum.com /COLLECT/39jewel.htm (513 words)

	Perisphere Encyclopedia Article, Definition, History, Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Looking For perisphere - Find perisphere and more at Lycos Search.
		The Perisphere was designed by architects Wallace Harrison and J.
		Andre Fouilhoux, with the interior exhibit by Henry Dreyfuss.
	www.karr.net /encyclopedia/Perisphere (352 words)

	Jeffrey Hart -- NR
		The hero of the Fair was George Washington, whose large though banal statue graced the place: the Father of His Country, the very image of authority.
		Then you had the Trylon and Perisphere, by the great firm of Harrison and Fouilhoux.
		An adult, meanwhile, would have seen that the Trylon and Perisphere were not casually conceived some lazy afternoon down at Harrison and Fouilhoux.
	www.nationalreview.com /21july95/hart.htm (997 words)

	World's Fair Drawings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		With the brilliantly white and soaring Trylon, and waterborne Perisphere at its hub, and boulevards of buildings radiating outward in zones of gradually intensifying color, the Fair was more Oz than Kansas-or Iowa, Illinois, New Jersey or New York, and Americans loved it.
		More familiarly known as the Trylon and Perisphere, this instantly recognizable symbol of the Fair consisted of a 610-foot-high pyramidal tower (the Trylon) and a spherical structure 180 feet in the diameter (the Perisphere) set within an 18-foot-wide, 950-foot-long ramp (the Helicline).
		The Perisphere seemed to float above a reflecting pool, elevated 17 feet on eight tubular steel columns and ringed by fountains.
	www.carnegiemuseums.org /cmag/bk_issue/1997/sepoct/feat6.html (905 words)

	Long Island History: A Rosy View of the Future
		The theme was ``The World of Tomorrow,'' a message of boundless optimism that came at a perfect moment in American history: that slim wedge of time between the sorrowful era of the Great Depression and the tragic years of World War II, just around the corner.
		The symbols of the future were the gleaming-white Trylon and Perisphere.
		Inside the Perisphere, visitors rode on one of two moving belts around the interior, peering down on Democracity, a diorama of urban and exurban life in the future, as if seen from an airplane.
	www.newsday.com /community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs733a,0,7419843.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation (996 words)

	The 1939-40 New York Worlds Fair. A Memorabilia Collection
		The Trylon and Perisphere with the Helicline in the foreground.
		The Trylon and Perisphere take shape into one of the most memorable symbols in fair history.
		The "Bridge of Flags" was said to be best place for a picture with the Trylon and Perisphere in the background.
	community-2.webtv.net /WarHistory/The193940NewYork/page8.html (229 words)

	New York 1939-1940
		Harrison had envisioned a concrete shell for the Trylon and Perisphere, but this also was too expensive, since America was just coming out of the Depression.
		This conflict may not have been intentional, but must have been very obvious.
		Many different products were sold in its image, including lamps, bookends and paper weights.
	www.lib.umd.edu /ARCH/honr219f/1939nyci.html (932 words)

	Greater Astoria Historical Society - History Topics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Trylon and Perisphere will be dedicated in an impressive ceremony befitting the $1.7 million project.
		Present will be several governors, the mayor, officers of great corporations taking exhibit space, judges, ambassadors, chambers of commerce, and officers of historical societies.
		It will contain the largest statue of modern times, a 65 -foot monument showing George Washington at his inauguration, the largest sundial ever constructed, the largest ball ever built and the largest triangular shape in the world [Trylon and Perisphere], scores of sculptures, hundreds of fountains, five lagoons, five waterfalls and over a thousand trees.
	www.astorialic.org /starjournal/features/worldsfair.shtm (1369 words)

	1939 World's Fair Collectible Souvenirs
		"The ubiquitous milk glass vinegar bottle and coins are passe now," she said, "but anything unique will sell in a second." For instance, a snow dome paperweight with fl snow falling on a Trylon and Perisphere, or a plastic pencil sharpener, or a plywood jigsaw puzzle in its original box.
		Schwartz warns collectors about rings and cuff links that are surfacing, as well as paper coasters in the shape of the Trylon and Perisphere that sport a Coca Cola emblem.
		Rossen said that police badges have also been reproduced and again, some as fantasy pieces, since these are also popular with those who collect police memorabilia.
	www.theantiquesalmanac.com /worldsfairsouvenirs.htm (1403 words)

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