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Engineering drawing showing assembly of the Newtonian mirror mount and cage for the 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope, at Mount Wilson Observatory

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Title: Engineering drawing showing assembly of the Newtonian mirror mount and cage for the 100-inch Hooker reflecting telescope, at Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1915
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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: Engineering drawing showing assembly of the Newtonian flat mirror mounting and cage of the Hooker 100-inch reflecting telescope, at Mount Wilson Observatory. The title box in teh lower right-hand corner of the drawing reads as follows:"100 in. Reflecting Telescope, Assembly, Newtonian Mirror Cage, Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, Pasadena, California." Below that are the signatures of those "checked by"; "approved by"; "drawn by" and "traced by". Dated December 22, [19]16.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 64
28061
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/907
Subject: Engineering drawings
Engineering graphics
Newtonian telescopes
Cassegrainian telescopes
Reflecting telescopes
Mirrors--Frames
Astronomical instruments
Large astronomical telescopes
Mount Wilson Observatory
Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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