Deseret Evening News | 1901-06-22 | Page 18 | Inside the Celebrated Greenwich Observatory

INSIDE THE j GREENWICH i ran i It Il may be said I without disparagement of ot any n other iio ment ot of Its that the tho great Greenwich lh which Is presented resented In III thin Illustration has hns a n Worldwide t for or no other reason the tho fact that from this point the It It r in Is generally reckoned would give it prominence or th I hut but iu It I M at the tully fully equipped for tor maintaining the preeminence that has W ni I Itt Its grent transit room has hilI long been beell known as 08 the f r rItt li naught or the place heru longitude begins for tor It i l hr hal of Ion 1 axis of or the immense telescope lh Ih t J mounted on solid stone stolle n Pillars in al alnet l net act spot crossed by b the tho prime meridians of the tho world Th x only In one plane that of longitude naught although H v peu for work stellar lunar and from tho Iho natly oh 01 results through It thousands ot or chronometers are dally et t and rat ral i if rat i nl