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The new 100-inch telescope floating ball bearing support system for the mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: The new 100-inch telescope floating ball bearing support system for the mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1931-03-17
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: New 100-inch telescope floating ball bearing support system for the mirror, Mount Wilson Observatory. Mr. Ladd stands by the plates.
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 568
28565
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1592
Subject: Ball bearings
Pedestals
Mirrors
Reflecting telescopes
Telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Optical instruments
Astronomical instruments
Scientists
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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