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Technical drawing showing the sectional assembly of the Hooker Reflecting Telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Technical drawing showing the sectional assembly of the Hooker Reflecting Telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1911
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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: Technical drawing showing the driving clock of the Hooker reflecting telescope, worm wheel, south spherical bearing, mercury trough and steel float, also quick motion drive in right ascension, Mount Wilson Observatory. The legend in the lower right-hand corner reads: "100 in. reflecting telescope, sectional assembly, south end of telescope, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California".
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 48
28045
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/638
Subject: Technical drawings
Mechanical drawing
Reflecting telescopes
Large astronomical telescopes
Astronomical instruments
Mount Wilson Observatory
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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