Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-07 | Page 10 | $6,000,000 17-Foot Lens Ready for Critical Test

Foot 17 Lens Ready for Critical Test CORNING N. N Y Dec 7 UP The The worlds world's largest telescope lens a foot 17 eye ce designed to lo reveal re reveal re- re veal objects one billion light years distant will be removed tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row from tram the annealing oven in which it has been cooling since December 2 1934 Not until the mold has been re removed removed removed re- re moved and the cores bored out will the success or failure of ot astronomy's venture me- me come known Minute inspections of ot the surface surface sur sur- face have convinced glass experts that the lens wilt will be In perfect condition As AJ soon as the cores A 11 are bored out the mirror will be prepared for shipment to Cali Cali- fornia tornia There nearly three years will wUl be spent In grinding the lens Jens to perfection because heat from the grinding tools would cause ause a flaw When completed the mirror will willbe willbe be mounted In a telescope on a southern California mountain Itis It Itis Itis is expected to range four times farther than any telescope now existing Scientists even go so far faras faras faras as to predict that the mirror may Indirectly furnish Information as asto asto asto to whether there Is life liCe on other planets