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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...hundred inches is the diameter, $12,000,000 the cost of Mt. Wilson's new mirror, still incomplete after years in construction. Plans for an "electronic" telescope, equal in magnifying power to an instrument equipped with a 2,000-inch mirror, were outlined by Dr. Francois Henroteau of Ottawa's Dominion Observatory. The projected telescope will be electrical, not optical. Dr. Henroteau and his aides have discovered how to deposit 25,000,000 minuscule silver dots on a square inch of thin mica plate. Starlight falling on the silvered mica will be scanned by photoelectric cells, which will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. at Cambridge | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

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