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View down the length of the tube for Albert Michelson's speed of light experiment

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Title: View down the length of the tube for Albert Michelson's speed of light experiment
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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1932
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1937
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: View down the length of the tube for Albert Michelson's velocity of light experiment in Irvine, California. The pipe, or tube, shown was 1 mile in length, and three (3) feet in diameter. Wooden supports and wires are also visible.
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 4X5 B/W print
Identifier: COPC 724
28721
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/921
Subject: Light--Speed--Experiments
Tubes
Pipe supports
Wire
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Irvine (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Irvine (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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