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Title: The 100-inch telescope mirror on grinding machine
Date Created and/or Issued: 1906
1907
1908
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1910
1911
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1914
1915
1916
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: The 100-inch mirror on the grinding machine, with concave surface polished and ready for parabolizing, showing the full sized polishing tool, & band for supporting the mirror when turn-table was tipped forward for testing. Photograph likely taken in the Optical laboratory in Pasadena, for Mount Wilson Observatory.
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 52
28049
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/444
Subject: Glass grinding and polishing
Mirrors
Astronomical instruments
Optical instruments
Telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Optical laboratories
Workshops
Interiors
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Pasadena (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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