About World Globes

The MOVA world globe rotates silently and is inspired by the earth itself. It is the world’s most advanced globe. It requires no power cords or batteries. . .only the natural light of your home or office.

The MOVA world globe rotates peacefully and silently using only the energy of room light and the force of the earth’s magnetic field. This is possible because the MOVA globe is actually an inner globe that rotates and is contained within an outer shell made of very clear acrylic that does not rotate. The thin space between the inner globe and outer shell is filled with a safe, perfectly clear fluid that buoyantly supports the inner globe completely out of contact with the outer shell. This inner globe, floating and turning in a virtually friction-free environment and energized by light, is analogous to the earth itself. The MOVA globe is being brought to market at a time when people everywhere will understand and appreciate this analogy.

The optical properties of the outer shell and fluid are carefully chosen so that the graphic features on the surface of the inner globe are magnified and appear to be on the outer surface of the outer shell. This means that the outer shell actually appears to move. The MOVA globe can rest on an attractive three fingered stand that is provided, or on just about any other kind of stand that can be chosen to complement it’s graphic design. The MOVA globe appears to rotate in spite of resting on the stand, in quiet defiance of commonly held ideas about the laws of friction.A carefully designed, and highly efficient drive mechanism within the inner globe drives the rotation even in room light. Energy for the drive is provided by very advanced solar cells within the inner globe, illuminated by light passing through the graphic on the globe. The drive includes a magnetic element that reacts with the earth’s magnetic field, much as a common compass does, to provide torque to drive the globe.

All of these elements of the MOVA globe cooperate to create a beautiful, magical object that provides a meditative point of focus to any room.

Trippin’ the Lights Fantastic

We all like to acknowledge about where we’ve traveled and the sights we’ve seen–but until recently, such recognition was decidedly low-tech, consisting of either a small world map with pushpins stuck into it, or those rather ugly state window decals.

Next time you want to really “highlight” you journey, trace your route on a Lightravels illuminated wall map.  Framed in a quality shadow box, the backlit map is, by itself, a great conversation piece, but push one of the colored pegs into the map to designate a stop along your journey, and the map comes to life.  The colored pegs pick up the diffused light from energy-efficient fluorescent bulbs, offering a glowing memory of the trip for everyone to appreciate.

Available in both World and U.S. editions, the Lightravels map is approximately 34 x 23 inches.

Published in Motorhome Magazine, April 2006

Unique 11″ world globe educates as it entertains. Colorful clear images of 263 animals are shown in their natural habitat. When illuminated, the 11″ model shows ocean animals. The world globe comes with an animal encyclopedia which contains interesting facts on each animal.

Diameter: 12,753 km (7,926 miles)

Mass:  5.98×10^24 kilograms (6.5e21 tons)

Surface Gravity: 9.78 m/s^2

Density: 5,515 kg/m^3

Minimum Distance from Sun: 146 million km (91 million miles)

Maximum Distance from Sun: 152 million km (94.5 million miles)

Tilt of Axis: 23 degrees 27″

Rotation Period with respect to Sun (Length of Day): 24 hrs

Rotation Period with respect to stars (Sidereal Day): 23 hrs 56 min

Revolution Period about the Sun (Length of a Year): 365 days 5 hrs 

Temperature: -89 degrees C to 57.7 degrees C (-128 degrees F to 136 degrees F)

Do you want a physical, political or raised relief globe?
Physical globes primarily display the physical, geographic aspects of the earth.  Color variations indicate land forms, vegetation, and climactic conditions.
Political globes primarily display the political aspects of the earth, overlaid on the geographic features. Political features include cities as well as state and national borders.
Raised Relief globes simulate the raised surfaces of the earth, such as prominent mountain ranges.  This feature is available on some physical and political world globes.

Equator:  Imaginary line running east and west around the exact middle of the earth.

Prime Meridian:  Imaginary line running from pole to pole and passing through
                         Greenwich, England, home of the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

Zero Point:  The equator and the prime meridian intersect at point “0″.  This is
                   where all numbering starts for longitude and latitude lines.

Latitude:  Imaginary lines running around the globe parallel to the equator at 10 or 15-degree increments.

Longitude:  Imaginary lines running from pole to pole numbered in 15-degree increments
                 from the Prime Meridian.

23.5 Degrees:  The angle of the Earth’s tilt as it flies through space.  Most 
                      world globes are made to reflect this angle.

Meridian:  A full- or semi-circle metal arc used to hold the world globe in place.  Meridians
                are generally numbered in degrees from 0 degree at the equator to 90 degrees
                at either pole.

Time Dial:  If it is noon where you are, turn the time dial so that noon faces your 
                 global location.  The other numbers on the dial now show the time in the
                 rest of the world.

Information Courtesy of Replogle Globes.

Frank Lloyd Wright® World Globes

In 1928, Frank Lloyd Wright began creating a major remodeling project of the existing resort, the San Marcos in the Desert Hotel on the outskirts of Phoenix. The project was never completed due to the 1929 stock market crash, but the building design and the interior renderings contain a variety of interesting furniture and decorative features. This adapted world globe stand showcases the 60 degree angled legs and the hexagonal top of a small accent table designed for the totally new special Dining Pavilion bordered by the garden terraces of the San Marcos in the Desert Hotel, Chandler, Arizona. (Project revised 1936)

Replogle World Globes adopted this design in 2008 for the Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.

Hybrid world globe heralds a new era in globe making.  It has been a long time since a globe maker has created a new globe manufacturing process.   CRAM has taken the next step with the Hybrid Globe.

The Hybrid globe ball, available in blue ocean as shown (Fairmont Blue Ocean) or antique ocean, provides a crisp, clean look that non-illuminated balls have always lacked.   The creases and cross cuts have been removed to create a bright, beautiful globe ball.

Frank Lloyd Wright® World Globes 

Frank Lloyd Wright’s overall concept for his buildings included the integration of the interior furnishings. In 1952, he developed a series of hexagonal metal chairs, tables and other furniture for the H.C. Price Tower in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that coordinated with the geometric shape of the building. Adapted from the hexagonal hassock design, the 12″ Frank Lloyd Wright® Hexagon Globe as part of the  Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection exemplifies the three Organic Elements used by Wright throughout his lifetime.  The metal base is triangular, the heagonal globe support is wood, and the globe is circular.

Frank Lloyd Wright® World Globes

Frank Lloyd Wright’s overall concept for his buildings included the integration of the furniture and decorative objects.  Replogle Globes is honored to produce a new line of globes adaped from select Wright drawings and concepts, chosen by Replogle and authorized by the Frank Lloyd Wright foundation

The Tabouret 9″ antique world globe is part of the  Frank Lloyd Wright® Collection.  The stand is an adaptation of one of the more than 22,000 drawings in the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation archives. The design is closely based on the tabouret table from a composite drawing showing the coordinating grandfather clock, chair, vase and tabouret table that Mr. Wright created for the Darwin D. Martin House, Buffalo, New York in 1903.