World globe geographic area viewer

Abstract

An educational toy for familiarizing young people or children with different geographic areas of the world. The educational toy comprises a rotatable world globe on which is mounted a carrier at least partially encircling the globe along a meridian thereof. The carrier supports a film strip containing longitudinally spaced images of selected geographic areas of the globe. In addition, a viewer is slidably mounted on the carrier, and is slidably movable thereon to a selected position of latitude on the globe in which the viewer is substantially in register with a plurality of images on the carrier of a selected geographic area. Indicia on a light transmitting spot on a geographic area of the globe that corresponds to the images of the selected geographic area is movable by manual rotation of the globe into register with the viewer. The viewer is adjusted to view the indicia and then images of the selected geographic area on the film strip are moved into register with the viewer.

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