NEW OBSERVATORY
GREAT GIFT OF HINDU
ENGINEER
WORLD'S BIGGEST TELESCOPE TO
BE FITTED.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRIOHI.)
(AUSTRALIAN • NETT ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.»
LONDON, 29th October. The " Daily Express " states Assan Dma, a Hindu engineer and scientist, and his wife, who are in America, are presenting France with an equipped observatory costing £1,250,000. The observatory is !being erected on Monte Saleve, a peak of 4430 feet, above Geneva. The equipment will include a telescope 105 inches in diameter, 5 inches larger than that, at Mount Wilson, now the largest in the world. Saleve is an isolated peak, its atmosphere is the purest discoverable, and the place is exceptionally free of clouds and air currents. An aeroplane service and wireless equipment will be installed to keep the observatory in daily touch with civilisation.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 105, 31 October 1923, Page 7
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