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Fast motor and gears of the 100-inch telescope declination drive, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Fast motor and gears of the 100-inch telescope declination drive, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1920-06-28
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: Closeup of fast motor and gears of the 100-inch telescope declination drive, Mount Wilson Observatory. The interior walls of the domed observatory are in the background.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 8X10 print
Identifier: COPC 645
28642
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1483
Subject: Motors
Gearing
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Walls
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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