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Title: Aligning wooden supports alongside the tube for Albert Michelson's spped of light experiment
Date Created and/or Issued: 1927
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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: Unidentified man, aligning wooden supports alongside the tube for the Albert Michelson velocity of light experiment in Irvine, California. the tube behind the man is one mile long, and is 3 feet in diameter. The Albert Michelson speed of light experiment, at the Irvine Ranch, took place between 1931 and 1933.
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 726
28723
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/923
Subject: Light--Speed--Experiments
Tubes
Wooden fences
Michelson, Albert A. (Albert Abraham), 1852-1931
Irvine (Calif.)
Scientists
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Portrait Photographs. (aat)
Place: Irvine (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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