Pier with plaque noting the site where A.A. Michelson conducted his velocity of light experiment, Mount Wilson. Trees grow in the background; mountains are seen in the far distance. Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
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