Ellen Eliza Fitz

Title

Ellen Eliza Fitz
Fitz, Ellen Eliza
E.E. Fitz

Type

Individual

Coverage

Saint John, NB
Watertown, MA, USA
Sommerville, MA, USA

Active From

1875-01-01

Active Until

1879-01-01

Location

Saint John, NB

Product Areas

Globes

Activities

Designing

Timeline

- 1835 – Fitz is born in Kingston, New Hampshire (“As the World Turns”)

- 1875 – Fitz receives a patent for her globe invention that “would facilitate students’ understanding of the Earth’s daily rotation and annual revolution” (“As the World Turns”)

- 1878 – Fitz publishes an educational textbook focusing on globes, Hand-book of the terrestrial globe, or, Guide to Fitz's new method of mounting and operating globes.

- 1878/9? – Fitz receives a US patent for a celestial globe. (Trudel)

Sources

Stoner, Julie “As the World Turns” Library of Congress Blogs (March 4, 2022) (https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2022/03/as-the-world-turns-ellen-eliza-fitz-and-her-inventive-globe-mount/)

Fitz, E.E. “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” (Ginn and Heath, 1878) (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100535332)

“Ellen E. Fitz collected papers 1853-1887 (inclusive)” Watertown Massachusetts, Watertown Free Public Library SC203 (https://content.civicplus.com/api/assets/7bdde14d-0f91-4b8f-906c-9f15e4adfe4e)

Trudel, J.-L., Precision instrument maker research notes, Ingenium

Warner, Deborah Jean, “Geography of Heaven and Earth-II” Rittenhouse 2, Nov. 2 (1987)

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