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The bubble measured almost 64' from front to back, and a little over 57' from left to right. The Bubble Top used on the Orbitron was blown by Acry Plastics. The seat was a bench type with simple tuck and roll. Light blue fur was used in the compartment. The interior of the car was done by Joe Perez.

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It also had a Dixco tach on the column, a pair of Stewart-Warner gauges mounted in the center console, a Hurst shifter, a Moon gas pedal and a TV mounted in the center console. The car featured a Cragar steering wheel that was hooked to a 1940 Ford steering box.

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The driver’s compartment was placed at the rear of the vehicle, with the driver sitting behind the rear wheels similar to the setup of a slingshot dragster. The car ran on Astro slotted chrome wheels wearing single-groove Inglewood whitewall cheater slicks and Cal Custom fake knockoff caps. Everything was chrome plated by Model Plating in Bell Gardens. Front axle was a dropped early Ford V8-60 tube axle with finned Buick drums and Lincoln brakes.

The front of the frame featured a handmade four bar setup with a cross leaf spring on a suicide perch. The frame was hand made out of 2x4 inch rectangular tubes. The engine was hooked to a Powerglide two-speed transmission. The 283 motor was painted blue, and dressed up with Corvette valve covers and three chromed Stromberg 97's. Under the hood, the Orbitron featured the engine from Ed Roth's own 1955 Chevrolet daily driver. Dirty Doug and Dick Cook assisted Ed in the building process. The lights were intended to function like television tubes, which when illuminated together would create a strong white light beam. The distinctive nose of the car incorporated a set of red, green and blue lights. Newt designed the Orbitron to look like a slingshot dragster with space age influences. The car was designed by Ed 'Newt' Newton. All rights reserved.The Orbitron is a bubble top show car built by Ed 'Big Daddy' Roth in 1964. The Orbitron TM, a gallery of orbitals on the WWW, URL: Ĭopyright 2002-2021 Mark Winter. The interactive 'dot-density' image files (using the JSmol, the Jmol JavaScript Object) were created using the same HyperCard program. More recent images were created using SuperCard and LiveCode. The original 'dot-density' electron density image files were created in 1992 for the first edition of my Oxford Primer: Chemical Bonding using the totally brilliant and much lamented HyperCard.

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Movie sequences were created using Final Cut Pro and QuickTime. Images for the 2021 version of The Orbitron were created using POV-Ray 3.7. The ray-traced images for the 2002 version of The Orbitron were drawn on a Macintosh using MacMegaPov, an unofficial version of POV-Ray. Pickup (all at The University of Sheffield) for perceptive comments and much help over the years. I am grateful to Dr David Cook, the late Dr Martin Grayson, Professor Patrick W. However the result should be an improvement as The Orbitron should now work well on mobile devices (only tested on Apple systems, if you have problems on other devices please let me know). The Orbitron dates back to 2002 but didn't change much until the end of 2020 when the demise of Flash for viewing movie files on the web forced updates. an atom has many orbitals, each of which has a fixed size and shape and can hold up to two electrons. A subdivision of the available space within an atom for an electron to orbit the nucleus. (Phys) Space in an atom occupied by an electron. A device for manipulating atoms or subatomic particles, accelerator. All will be fixed shortly but hopefully there will be something of use here and Flash is no longer required.Īdapted from Encarta World English Dictionary -tron suffix. It is not finished - there are still some missing images, missing videos, errors in orbital names, many typos, incorrect labels, no hybrid orbitals, and no molecular orbitals. This version of The Orbitron is a partial rewrite of the 2002 version of The Orbitron.

'Dot-density' plots of electron density.

Images representing atomic orbitals and a few molecular orbitals.