The original idea for COSI was born during a organization journey to Chicago in 1957 by Sanford N. (Sandy) Hallock ll, who functioned as an account executive for the Byer and also Bowman advertising agency. While there, he visited the Museum of Science and Sector which he had actually checked out as a young boy with this papa. Something must have clicked on this check out, nevertheless, for when Sandy returned home, he claimed to his better half Peggy, "Do you recognize what Columbus needs? It requires a Gallery of Science as well as Sector!" Sandy's lifelong interest in scientific research and modern technology led him to pursue the dream of producing such an establishment in Columbus, and also in 1958 he composed the initial proposal for a Facility of Science as well as Industry.


The actual production of COSI arised from a arbitrary integrating of characters and also scenarios

• Carello Mold Testing Columbus
• Topiary Park
• LEGOLAND Discovery Center Columbus
• Wagner Hagans Auto Museum
• Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
• Kelton House Museum & Garden
• Columbus Museum of Art
• Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens

. The ideas and also concept for the Facility, of course, came from Sandy Hallock that took the idea to a business colleague, Herschel Stephan. Mr. Stephan was the Head Of State of the Franklin Area Historic Culture which was housed in the area's old Memorial Hall building at 280 E. Broad Street, Columbus Ohio. He took the suggestion of creating a science gallery to the Historical Culture's board of Trustees. In November of 1961, the Board provided a formal strategy to establish a Center of Scientific Research and Market to the Franklin Region Commissioners, that, at the time, were trying to maintain Memorial Hall which had fallen under considerable disrepair.

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