Show r MEANS END OF OBSERVATORY Power House Threatens Usefulness of Scientific StaIn The Greenwich observatory Eng land one of the moot Important astronomical astro-nomical stations of tho world Is about to bo put out of business according to tho Electrical Review by the power pow-er station located near It by tho London Lon-don county council Tho power station Is located says the Review exactly on tho meridian about a mile south of tho observatory and although It nt present has but a small part of Its complement the entire equipment will have an output of ovor 60000 horsepower Already some disturbance Ions resulted from the observatory authorities have from the operation of certain generating units and the observatory ob-servatory authorities have brought ho matter before parliament na they fear that when all tho ma hlnory Is In place and running their Instruments will become useless As nearly all tho world now gets Its longitude from Greenwich all the world will share In tho wonder that the British government was so Inert as to allow a power station to bo put where It will Interfere with Important scientific work |