Show HUGE TELESCOPE ADDS TO RANGE OF MANS VISION one can imagine the shades of galileo calaco kepler and newton watching with amazed interest all that happened the other day in the glass works at corning coming N Y sir isaac newton in particular would have followed the process with thrilled wonder it was he who more than years ago invented the reflecting telescope and made tor for it a mirror of polished metal that measured six elz inches la in diameter at corning coming 20 tons of molten glass were ladled from the vast belly 0 of f a flery fiery furnace to be molded into a mirror inches in diameter it will be the second of that hugs huge slie size and both will go eo to serve a telescope greatest of its kind on a plateau of palomar mountain 45 miles north of san diego the range of human vision will be extended four times over what Is made possible by any existing instrument it will reach suburbs of space i light years away objects on the moon no bigger than a city skyscraper will become visible and the mysteries of the geometrical tracings on mars may be solved and what asks the hardheaded hard headed beaded reader will be the practical balu bahr of it all the practical value in the hardheaded hard headed sense has never been considered but whether or no there then comes from it aDy anything thing that w w could class in the category of utility man will be less a stranger in lib universe that justifies the adventure meanwhile back of the telescope conceived at mount wilson observe tory lies iles the carnegie institute and back of the carnegie institute the th millions of a moneymaking money making scot who wrested his wealth from the competitive conflict of steel mills thus the sam sage sweeps from the smelter to the stars chicago newa |