Another article - The Greatest Telescope on Earth

[ffutures]

A visit to the Yerkes observatory in 1897 - The Greatest Telescope on Earth by Walter George Bell.

http://forgottenfutures.com/library/telescope/telescope.htm

It's an interesting look at one of the last big refractor telescopes, but formatting HTML for measurements in weird fractions of an inch is a total pain!

Let me know if anything looks odd.

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I was recently looking at some little-known photos of Yerkes and its staff taken in 1910 by a Chicago Daily News photographer.
Type "yerkes" into the search box here.

Heck, I saw a former director of Yerkes walking around Fermilab last week.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Interesting - I'll add that link to the article.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Architects always seem to do particularly good jobs when it comes to designing buildings to house telescopes in. They always like very grand to me.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

They have to put in lots of protection against vibration, temperature extremes, etc. which tends to equate to good solid construction and good materials.

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

Ahh, how interesting, it never occurred to me there would be a reason behind it.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Typo in the eighth paragraph 0 instead of o:
"get rid 0f the roughest projections"

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Now fixed.