Engineering drawing of the south pedestal for the 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope, including worm wheel, & driving clock. compare with HEH#00048. The title box in the lower right-hand corner reads as follows: "100 in. Reflecting telescope, Sectional assembly, south end of telescope, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California." At the bottom it reads: Job. no. 11 - A-D-E ; dated March 19, [19]17, Sheet no. 3011". The spaces for "Checked by, approved by, drawn by and traced by" are blank. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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