Word: boyden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...correcting plate of 24 inches diameter. This important type of telescope was invented about ten years ago by Bernard Schmidt, of Hamburg, Germany, and to date the Jewett telescope is the largest to be put into operation. Construction of larger telescopes of this type was recently started for the Boyden Station of Harvard Observatory at Bloemfontein, South Africa, and at the Palomar Observatory of the California Institute of Technology...
Despite this apparent division of authority, the real control of Harvard's $200,000,000 worth of property, its $148,000,000 endowment, and its giant domain stretching from the Atkins Botanical Institution in Soledad, Cuba, to the Boyden Observatory in Blooinfontein, South Africa, lies in the hands of seven...