GIANT 200-INCH TELESCOPE
SPRINGFIELD, U.S.A. Russell A. Porter, a, research engineer for the Jones and Larnson Machine Company, has left for California to become associated with somo of America’s foremost astronomers and natural scientists in the preparation of the 200-inch reflector telescope, which the California Institute of Technology will erect on a mountain top. Mr, Porter is widely known as a builder of telescopes and an Arctic explorer, having made four trips in search of the North Pole, one being with Mr. Cook,
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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83GIANT 200-INCH TELESCOPE Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6803, 5 January 1929, Page 3
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