GIANT BEARING MADE
USE IN NEW TELESCOPE NEW YORK. Feb. 21 The world's largest bearing, which will support 1,000,0001b. and which will be used on the enormous telescope that is being built to study the moon, is nearing completion in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. The bearing weighs 317,0001b. and is being ground to a 5000 th of an inch in accuracy. The telescope will be assembled in California in 1940.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 11
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68GIANT BEARING MADE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22975, 1 March 1938, Page 11
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