Gigantic Telescope
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The largest telescope in the world la being completed at Mount Wilson Observatory in Southern California. This telescope is 250,000 times more poweriul than the human eye, and will enable Astronomers to see a*thousand million new stars, and they hope with its help to find out the limits of the universe.
The- gigantic reflector is lOOin across, and weighs four and a half tons.
hen the telescope is finished it will be placed an. a steel structure covered by a revolving dome measuring 100 ft in diameter and weighing 500 tons.
The concrete base oil which the telescope is to rest weighs 200 tons, and the worm wheel which turns the shaft weighs .70001b, and has a diameter of 17ft. There are photographic dark rooms where places are developed, and a midnight dining-room attached to the structure for the convenience of astronomers. Ihe public will be able to view this enormous telescope through a glass-, walled room, so that the work of the astronomers will not be interfered with.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1917, Page 1
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178Gigantic Telescope Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 March 1917, Page 1
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