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Science
This window commemorates science, particularly the scientists of the United States.
1. The scientists portrayed in this panel from top to bottom are: Benjamin Franklin, with kite and key demonstrations the electricity in the storm clouds. Thomas Edison with the incandescent lamp precedes Samuel Morse with the telegraph -- poles repeat the cross motif. Robert Fulton, who invented the steamship and Robert Peary, intrepid explorer of the North Pole end this panel.
2. The panel begins with an abstraction of [Pierre] Teilhard de Chardin's philosophy of the reconciliation of the spirit and matter. The faceted glass near the bottom represents uranium and its ... radioactivity which lead to the atomic bomb. The symbol in the center explains the benefits of uranium ... in ceramics, dyes, photography, and more importantly, for the production of of nuclear energy. Alpha and Omega, the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet, have long been applied to God. Alpha denotes the Creator and Omega focuses at the point of decision where humans choose either to use or abuse the earth.
3. Top to bottom: George Washington Carver holds the peanut from which he developed over 100 [???] products; Albert Einstein points to his formula for energy, E=mc squared; Jonas Salk, discover of the polio vaccine, with microscope; Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone; and the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright and the first airplane. |