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U’M’IMLIAN AND N.Z. (’AIII.K ASSOCIATION NEW AMERICAN invention LONDON. September 0. I'tilising Chnitaral. in C’hiU*. as an observnion station Mr li. McAfee, an AnuTi.aii millionaire scientist. and Professor dd. of Harvard ITiiversity, intend in 10-21 to tody Mars to dotermini' as to the existence of human lit.' there, mill whether intelligent work is done oil the ])lanet. An enormous telescope is at present being constructed. Mr McAfee has dispensed with the usual class mirror in the telescope, ' and has substituted his own invention, a flat dish, fifty feet in diameter, wherein mercury will he poured and rotated nt a certain speed, the surface of the mercury thereby assuming the necessary concavity, and forming a splendid mirror. The total magnification will
he ‘->5.000,000 whereby the surface of Mars which is 35.000.000 miles away, will lie brought to within tv distance of a hunt one and a-ltalf miles. 01)servers point out that during 1924 Mars will on three occasions be nearer the earth than it has been for a century past.
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 September 1921, Page 2
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