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MODEL AT EXHIBITION TWICE AS LARGE AS V. OGLD’S LARGEST Telegraph— Association- C< pyri.ktj Received Oct. 16, 10.47 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 15. A model of a new telescope twice as large c* the world’s largest on Mount Wilson, which is being prepared under the direction of Captain McDowell, of the Navy, for Mount Palomar, was shown for the first time in the museum of natural history made possible through the six million dollar Rockefeller fund. The telescope will extend the human vision to space twice as far as ever before. A million light years will multiply the possibility of examining other universes eight times and bring the moon to an apparent distance of 24 miles. Astronomers will ride in a small cage and a 66-foot tube mounted in a seven-storey structure. The 500-ton tube will be so balanced that a child pushing the rim can move it. The reflector is being ground from a 200-inch glass discand will not be finished until 1940.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 246, 17 October 1936, Page 10
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166GIANT TELESCOPE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 246, 17 October 1936, Page 10
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