James Wilson is likely one of the most influential Vermonters you've never heard of.
In 1810, this Bradford farmer began manufacturing the first American-made globes, utilizing his farm workshop for the painstaking process of overlaying wooden spheres with layers of papier-mache and plaster to create an image of the earth as it was known at the time, spinning on both a horizon and a meridian ring, and mounted on a fine wooden stand.
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