Image / Lifting device for changing cages on the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Lifting device for changing cages on the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-06-24
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Lifting device for changing cages on the 100-inch telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. An unidentified man stands in the elevating basket above the telescope cage. The device's motor and gearing is seen above him, and in front of him, attached to a girder, is a large hook.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 647
28644
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1485
Subject: Hoisting machinery
Elevating platforms
Motors
Gearing
Men--California--Mount Wilson--Photographs
Tubes
Steel, Structural
Girders
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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