Salt Lake Herald | 1901-12-04 | Page 1 | Immense Telescope for South America

IMMENSE TELESCOPE FOR SOUTH AMERICA Los lAM Angeles Cal Cat Dec 1 There has bas Just been completed at the Fulton Pulton eti en engino gin gine works in this city a huge hOKe tel telescope telescope minus the lenses for tor the Lick Uck observatory ob on Mount Hamilton The steel teel frame liaise work for the tile two thirty lenses weigh welp UN pounds pound The tube is forty inches in diameter and sixteen feet long The work has baa been pa ed on by Pro Professor fessor feasor easer Campbell of Lick observatory and the instrument will m go to Mount Hamilton only for tor testing purposes after which it will be shipped 8 to Chile and mounted on some high peak of ef the tropics The present plan is to leave it there diere for three years in order that very ery close and accurate observations of the southern heavens beavens may maybe be made