January 31, 1999

The Globe

  The globe was invented in 1810 by James Wilson. It benefits people by helping to provide a better understanding of world geography. The invention works by pasting or printing of a map on a hollow sphere. President Truman received a large, beautiful globe and stand on from General Eisenhower in 1945. This globe copy is currently sitting in the Oval Office at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri.

Here is what Truman said about the globe:

"The globe, in front of the mantel, replaces the one which was given to me by General Eisenhower at his headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, in Nineteen Hundred and Forty-Five. When General Eisenhower succeeded me in the Presidency,I returned the original globe to him."

Oval Office at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri
click on the globe to see it closer:

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