Word: inchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will cover more sky than any other in the U. S.-all the sky except that relatively small part which lies within 30° of the south celestial pole. But it will not probe so far into space or catch such faint stars as Mt. Wilson's 100-incher; and Dr. Struve, candidly admitting these limitations last week, said that it would be used for those wide-vision purposes to which it is especially well adapted...
...Biggest working telescope is Mt. Wilson's 100-incher in California. This will drop to second place and the McDonald instrument to third when Caltech gets its 200-inch giant into action, perhaps next year...
...live that long!" Biggest Cook telescope, the 28½-incher, is currently being used...
...nearly so long as the correct figure. Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope already penetrates .500 million light-years into space, and Caltech's 200-incher is expected to pierce 1,500 million...
Biggest amateur telescope is the 22-incher built by George Tauchmann of Berkeley, Calif. Twelve amateurs from California to Massachusetts have built 12-in. instruments, powerful enough to magnify the craters of the moon 500 or 600 times, to make visible the fifth satellite of Jupiter...