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Surfacing the rails of the dome for the Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Surfacing the rails of the dome for the Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1914
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: Surfacing the rails of the dome for the Hooker telescope, Mount Wilson Observatory. Along the rail is a motor-driven grinder, pushed along by a motor-driven truck, and guided by a steel boom pivoted in the center. The San Gabriel Mountains are visible 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 32
28029
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1335
Subject: Observatory domes--Design and construction
Mount Wilson Observatory
Astronomical observatories
Grinding and polishing
Machinery
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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